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According to WordNet, the verb "break_up" has 19 sense(s).

200338071 break or cause to break into pieces; "The plate fragmented".

200364297 close at the end of a session; "The court adjourned".

201610463 destroy the completeness of a set of related items; "The book dealer would not break the set".

200355803 come to an end; "Their marriage dissolved"; "The tobacco monopoly broke up".

201215017 release ice; "The icebergs and glaciers calve".

200209174 separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts.

200778275 make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages".

200355955 bring the association of to an end or cause to break up; "The decree officially dissolved the marriage"; "the judge dissolved the tobacco company".

200330565 cause to separate; "break up kidney stones"; "disperse particles".

201560984 set or keep apart; "sever a relationship".

202029663 come apart; "the group broke up".

201562061 break violently or noisily; smash;.

202431320 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".

200447309 cause to go into a solution; "The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water".

201657977 take apart into its constituent pieces.

201785579 suffer a nervous breakdown.

202030424 to cause to separate and go in different directions; "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds".

200030366 laugh unrestrainedly.

201442578 attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example; "Pick open the ice".


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