break up

Sense 1 verb

to cause to separate and go in different directions

She waved her hand and scattered the crowds

Sense 2 verb

discontinue an association or relation; go different ways

The business partners broke over a tax question

Sense 3 verb

come apart

the group broke up

Sense 4 verb

break violently or noisily; smash;

Sense 5 verb

make a break in

We interrupt the program for the following messages

Sense 6 verb

cause to go into a solution

The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water

Sense 7 verb

suffer a nervous breakdown

Sense 8 verb

take apart into its constituent pieces

Sense 9 verb

destroy the completeness of a set of related items

The book dealer would not break the set

Sense 10 verb

set or keep apart

sever a relationship

Sense 11 verb

attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example

Pick open the ice

Sense 12 verb

release ice

The icebergs and glaciers calve

Sense 13 verb

close at the end of a session

The court adjourned

Sense 14 verb

bring the association of to an end or cause to break up

The decree officially dissolved the marriage

Sense 15 verb

come to an end

Their marriage dissolved

Sense 16 verb

break or cause to break into pieces

The plate fragmented

Sense 17 verb

cause to separate

break up kidney stones

Sense 18 verb

separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts

Sense 19 verb

laugh unrestrainedly