break up
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(verb) laugh unrestrainedly |
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Synonyms: crack up |
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Related Words: express joy, express mirth, laugh |
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(verb) cause to separate; "break up kidney stones"; "disperse particles" |
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Synonyms: disperse, scatter |
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Related Words: backscatter, change integrity |
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(verb) break into pieces; "The plate fragmented" |
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Synonyms: fragment, fragmentize |
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Related Words: atomize, bray, break, brecciate, come apart, comminute, crumb, crunch, crush, fall apart, grate, grind, mash, rag, separate, sliver, splinter, split up, sunder |
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(verb) come apart |
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Related Words: disband, dissolve, part, separate, split |
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(verb) separate into constituent elements or parts |
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Synonyms: decompose |
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Related Words: separate |
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(verb) terminate (legally); "Their marriage dissolved" |
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Synonyms: dissolve |
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Related Words: end, terminate |
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(verb) cause to go into a solution; "dissolve sugar in water" |
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Synonyms: dissolve |
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Related Words: change integrity, cut, melt, melt down, run |
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(verb) release ice; of icebergs or glaciers |
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Synonyms: calve |
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Related Words: divide, part, separate |
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(verb) attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example; "Pick open the ice" |
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Synonyms: pick |
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Related Words: pierce |
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(verb) set or keep apart; "sever a reatlionship" |
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Synonyms: sever |
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Related Words: disunite, divide, part, separate |
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(verb) break violently or noisily; smash; |
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Synonyms: break apart, crash |
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Related Words: disintegrate |
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(verb) destroy the completeness of a set of related items; "The book dealer would not break the set" |
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Synonyms: break |
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Related Words: alter, change |
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(verb) close at the end of a session; "The court adjourned" |
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Synonyms: adjourn, recess |
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Related Words: cease, end, finish, terminate |
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(verb) make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages" |
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Synonyms: cut off, disrupt, interrupt |
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Related Words: barge in, block, break, break, break in, break off, burst in on, burst upon, butt in, chime in, come in, cut, cut in, cut off, discontinue, harass, heckle, inject, interject, intermit, interpose, jam, pause, punctuate, put away, put in, stop, take off, take time off, throw in |
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(verb) take apart into its constituent pieces |
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Synonyms: break apart, disassemble, dismantle, take apart |
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Related Words: destroy |
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(verb) suffer a nervous breakdown |
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Synonyms: collapse, crack, crack up, crock up |
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Related Words: get, have, suffer, sustain |
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(verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions, of crowds, for example; "She waved her hand and scattered the crows." |
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Synonyms: dispel, disperse, dissipate, scatter |
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Related Words: disband, divide, separate |
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(verb) 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" |
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Synonyms: break, part, separate, split, split up |
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Related Words: break, break apart, break away, break with, disjoint, dissassociate, dissociate, disunify, disunite, divorce, secede, splinter, split up |
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