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English verb: break up | |||
| 1. | break up (motion) to cause to separate and go in different directions | ||
| Samples | She waved her hand and scattered the crowds. | ||
| Synonyms | dispel, disperse, dissipate, scatter | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | divide, separate | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | disband | ||
| 2. | break up (social) discontinue an association or relation; go different ways | ||
| Samples | The business partners broke over a tax question. The couple separated after 25 years of marriage. My friend and I split up. | ||
| Synonyms | break, part, separate, split, split up | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | break, break apart, break away, break away, break with, disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, disunify, disunite, divorce, divorce, give the axe, give the bounce, give the gate, secede, splinter, split up | ||
| 3. | break up (motion) come apart | ||
| Samples | The group broke up. | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | part, separate, split | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | disband, dissolve | ||
| 4. | break up (contact) break violently or noisily; smash | ||
| Synonyms | break apart, crash | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Something is ----ing PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | disintegrate | ||
| Verb group | crash | ||
| 5. | break up (communication) make a break in | ||
| Samples | We interrupt the program for the following messages. | ||
| Synonyms | cut off, disrupt, interrupt | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | break, break off, discontinue, stop | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | barge in, block, break, break, break in, burst in on, burst upon, butt in, chime in, chisel in, come in, cut, cut in, cut off, heckle, inject, interject, intermit, interpose, jam, pause, punctuate, put aside, put away, put in, put in, stop, stop over, take off, take time off, throw in | ||
| 6. | break up (change) cause to go into a solution | ||
| Samples | The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water. | ||
| Synonyms | dissolve, resolve | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | change integrity | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | cut, melt, melt down, run | ||
| Cause | dissolve | ||
| 7. | break up (emotion) suffer a nervous breakdown | ||
| Synonyms | collapse, crack, crack up, crock up | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | get, have, suffer, sustain | ||
| 8. | break up (creation) take apart into its constituent pieces | ||
| Synonyms | break apart, disassemble, dismantle, take apart | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | destroy, destruct | ||
| Antonyms | assemble, put together, tack together, piece, set up, tack | ||
| 9. | break up (contact) destroy the completeness of a set of related items | ||
| Samples | The book dealer would not break the set. | ||
| Synonyms | break | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | alter, change, modify | ||
| Verb group | break | ||
| 10. | break up (contact) set or keep apart | ||
| Samples | Sever a relationship. | ||
| Synonyms | sever | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | disunite, divide, part, separate | ||
| Verb group | discerp, lop, sever | ||
| 11. | break up (contact) attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example | ||
| Samples | Pick open the ice. | ||
| Synonyms | pick | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | pierce | ||
| Entail | chop, hack | ||
| 12. | break up (contact) release ice | ||
| Samples | The icebergs and glaciers calve. | ||
| Synonyms | calve | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | divide, part, separate | ||
| 13. | break up (change) close at the end of a session | ||
| Samples | The court adjourned. | ||
| Synonyms | adjourn, recess | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | cease, end, finish, stop, terminate | ||
| 14. | break up (change) bring the association of to an end or cause to break up | ||
| Samples | The decree officially dissolved the marriage. The judge dissolved the tobacco company. | ||
| Synonyms | dissolve | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | end, terminate | ||
| Verb group | dismiss, dissolve | ||
| 15. | break up (change) come to an end | ||
| Samples | Their marriage dissolved. The tobacco monopoly broke up. | ||
| Synonyms | dissolve | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | end, terminate | ||
| 16. | break up (change) break or cause to break into pieces | ||
| Samples | The plate fragmented. | ||
| Synonyms | fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody of something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | break, come apart, fall apart, separate, split up | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | atomise, atomize, bray, brecciate, comminute, crumb, crunch, crush, grate, grind, grind, mash, pound, rag, sliver, splinter, sunder | ||
| 17. | break up (change) cause to separate | ||
| Samples | Break up kidney stones. Disperse particles. | ||
| Synonyms | disperse, scatter | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | change integrity | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | backscatter | ||
| 18. | break up (change) separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts | ||
| Synonyms | break down, decompose | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | separate | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | crack, digest, dissociate | ||
| Domain category | chemical science, chemistry | ||
| 19. | break up (body) laugh unrestrainedly | ||
| Synonyms | crack up | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | express joy, express mirth, laugh | ||
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