break up

1. to cause to separate and go in different directions; "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds"

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2. 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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3. come apart; "the group broke up"

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4. break violently or noisily; smash;

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5. make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages"

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6. cause to go into a solution; "The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water"

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7. suffer a nervous breakdown

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8. take apart into its constituent pieces

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9. destroy the completeness of a set of related items; "The book dealer would not break the set"

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10. set or keep apart; "sever a relationship"

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11. attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example; "Pick open the ice"

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12. release ice; "The icebergs and glaciers calve"

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13. close at the end of a session; "The court adjourned"

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14. bring the association of to an end or cause to break up; "The decree officially dissolved the marriage"; "the judge dissolved the tobacco company"

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15. come to an end; "Their marriage dissolved"; "The tobacco monopoly broke up"

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16. break or cause to break into pieces; "The plate fragmented"

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17. cause to separate; "break up kidney stones"; "disperse particles"

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18. separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts

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19. laugh unrestrainedly

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