break up

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Definition

  1. Verb (transitive):

    • To cause to separate into pieces or fragments: To shatter, smash, or disintegrate something.
    • To cause to disperse or scatter: To cause a group of people or things to separate and move apart.
    • To end a relationship or association: To terminate a personal, romantic, or professional connection.
    • To dissolve or cause to dissolve: To mix a solid substance into a liquid until it forms a solution, or to formally terminate an official body.

  2. Verb (intransitive):

    • To separate into pieces or fragments: To shatter or disintegrate.
    • To disperse or scatter: For a group of people or things to separate and move apart.
    • To end a relationship or association: For a romantic couple, partnership, or group to terminate their connection.
    • To come to an end: For an event, meeting, or situation to conclude.
Usage Examples

  • Verb (transitive):

    • The police arrived to break up the fight. (To cause a group to disperse)
    • She used a hammer to break up the large rock. (To cause to separate into pieces)
    • The news broke up their long friendship. (To end a relationship)
    • The chemist will break up the compound into its basic elements. (To separate substances)

  • Verb (intransitive):

    • The meeting will break up at noon. (To come to an end)
    • The crowd began to break up after the speech. (To disperse)
    • I heard that Mark and Lisa broke up last week. (To end a romantic relationship)
    • The iceberg started to break up in the warmer water. (To separate into pieces)
Advanced Usage

  • "to break up with someone": To end a romantic relationship with a specific person.

    • He was very sad after she broke up with him.

  • "to break something up into something": To divide something into smaller parts or categories.

    • The teacher broke the project up into three phases.
Variants and Related Words

  • Breakup (n): The act or instance of ending a relationship or dispersing.

    • The breakup of the company was announced today.

  • Broken up (adj): Emotionally distressed, especially due to the end of a relationship.

    • She was broken up about the divorce.
Synonyms
  • Disperse: To scatter or spread over a wide area.
  • Separate: To cause to move or be apart.
  • Split up: To end a relationship or divide into parts.
  • Dissolve: To formally end or cause to disappear into a liquid.
Related Phrasal Verbs

  • Break down: To stop functioning; to lose emotional control; to separate into components for analysis.

    • The car broke down on the highway. (Stopped functioning)
    • He broke down and cried. (Lost emotional control)

  • Break off: To separate a piece from something; to end abruptly.

    • She broke off a piece of chocolate.
    • The two countries broke off diplomatic relations.
Related Idioms

  • Break it up!: A command telling people to stop fighting or to disperse.

    • The officer yelled, "Break it up!" to the crowd.

  • Break up the monotony: To add variety to something that is boring or repetitive.

    • Let's go for a walk to break up the monotony of studying.
Verb
  1. laugh unrestrainedly
  2. separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
  3. cause to separate
    • break up kidney stones
    • disperse particles
  4. break or cause to break into pieces
    • The plate fragmented
  5. come to an end
    • Their marriage dissolved
    • The tobacco monopoly broke up
  6. bring the association of to an end or cause to break up
    • The decree officially dissolved the marriage
    • the judge dissolved the tobacco company
  7. close at the end of a session
    • The court adjourned
  8. release ice
    • The icebergs and glaciers calve
  9. attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
    • Pick open the ice
  10. set or keep apart
    • sever a relationship
  11. destroy the completeness of a set of related items
    • The book dealer would not break the set
  12. take apart into its constituent pieces
  13. suffer a nervous breakdown
  14. cause to go into a solution
    • The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water
  15. make a break in
    • We interrupt the program for the following messages
  16. break violently or noisily; smash;
  17. come apart
    • the group broke up
  18. discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
    • The business partners broke over a tax question
    • The couple separated after 25 years of marriage
    • My friend and I split up
  19. to cause to separate and go in different directions
    • She waved her hand and scattered the crowds

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