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breaking upverbpresent participle of break up to cease to exist or cause to cease to exist as a group or organizationthe band broke up when their arguments over money grew too stressful disbanding, dispersing, dissolving demobilizing banding, joining, uniting incorporatingconsolidatinghanging together to come to an endthe meeting broke up when all the business for the day had been completed breaking off, ceasing, closing, concluding, dead-ending, determining, discontinuing, dying, elapsing, ending, expiring, finishing, going, halting, lapsing, leaving off, letting up, passing, quitting, stopping, terminating, winding up, winking (out) desisting (from), laying off (of), refraining (from)giving over(British), knocking off, packing (up or in)breaking down, conking (out), cutting out, stallingpausing, staying, suspendingabating, petering (out), winding down biting the dust continuing, hanging on, persisting drawing out, extending, prolonging, protracting to set or force aparthe broke up the rocks in the old stone wall with a crowbar, sending them tumbling to the ground decoupling, disassociating, disconnecting, disjoining, disjointing, dissevering, dissociating, disuniting, dividing, divorcing, parting, ramifying, resolving, separating, severing, splitting, sundering, uncoupling, unlinking, unyoking breaking down, decomposing, disassembling, disintegrating, dissolvingbifurcating, bisecting, cleaving, dichotomizing, dissecting, fractionalizing, fractionating, halving, partitioning, quartering, segmenting, subdividing, trisectingfragmentating, fragmenting, fragmentizingbreaking, fracturing, pulling, rending, rifting, ripping, riving, rupturing, tearingcutting off, insulating, isolating, secluding, segregating, sequesteringdetaching, disengaging, disentangling, unraveling, untying(or untieing) joining, linking, unifying, uniting assembling, associating, blending, combining, mingling, mixingconnecting, couplingaccumulating, agglutinating, attaching, binding, cementing, closing, fastening, fusing, knitting, sticking, welding to yield to mental or emotional stressthe sort of person who would be among the first to break up in a prisoner of war camp breaking down, cracking, flipping (out)(slang), freaking (out), melting down, wigging (out)(slang) choking blowing one's cool, falling apart, going off the deep end, going to pieces, losing it to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate endpolice arrived at the scene and immediately broke up the fracas breaking, breaking off, canning(slang), ceasing, cutting off, cutting out, desisting (from), discontinuing, dropping, ending, giving over, halting, knocking off, laying off, leaving off, packing (up or in), quitting, shutting off, stopping completing, concluding, finishingclosing (down)deactivatingblockading, blocking, damming, delaying, detaining, hindering, holding, holding back, impeding, kiboshing, obstructing, stemmingcalling, suspendingarresting, braking, checking, clamping down, reining (in), squashing, squelching, stamping, stanching(or staunching), stunting, suppressing, turning backpausing, staying, suspendingabolishing, aborting, annulling, demolishing, destroying, dissolving, killing, ruining, scuttling, snuffing having done with, putting the kibosh on carrying on, continuing, following through (with), keeping up, running onadvancing, proceeding, progressingactuating, driving, impelling, propelling, stirring to cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forciblybreak up the feta cheese and spread it over the salad breaking, busting, disintegrating, dismembering, disrupting, fracturing, fragmenting, riving atomizing, crushing, grinding, powdering, pulverizing, reducingblasting, blowing up, bursting, detonating, explodingcracking, popping, shattering, shivering, smashingchipping, slivering, splintering, splittingimplodingdestroying, ruining, wrecking doctoring, fixing, healing, mending, patching, rebuilding, reconditioning, reconstructing, renovating, repairing to show mirth with an explosive vocal soundif you break up during the skit, the audience will know that you're in on the joke cackling, chortling, chuckling, cracking up, giggling, hee-hawing, laughing, roaring, screaming, snickering, tittering, twittering grinning, smiling splitting one's sides bawling, blubbering, crying, sobbing, weepinghowling, screaming, squalling, wailing, yowlingbleating, puling, whimpering, whiningsniffling, sniveling(or snivelling)groaning, moaning, sighing |