break up🔊

To break or separate into pieces.

To break or separate into pieces; to disintegrate or come apart.

To upset greatly; to cause great emotional disturbance or unhappiness in.

(idiomatic) To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship.

To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship with each other.

(idiomatic) To dissolve; to part.

(idiomatic) Of a school, to close for the holidays at the end of term.

(telecommunications) Of a conversation, to cease to be understandable because of a bad connection; of a signal, to deteriorate.

(idiomatic) To stop a fight; to separate people who are fighting.

(figuratively) To become disorganised.

To cut or take to pieces for scrap.

(slang) To be or cause to be overcome with laughter.

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