breakup
break·up
noun \ˈbrāk-ˌəp\Definition of BREAKUP
1
: an act or instance of breaking up
2
: the breaking, melting, and loosening of ice in the spring
Examples of BREAKUP
- Money problems often lead to marital breakups.
- She's just gone through a bad breakup with her boyfriend.
- He began drinking heavily following the breakup of his marriage.
- a couple heading for marital breakup
- What caused the breakup of the Roman Empire?
- the breakup of a monopoly
- the breakup of an asteroid as it hits the Earth's atmosphere
First Known Use of BREAKUP
1794
Related to BREAKUP
Synonyms: bifurcation, separation, cleavage, dissolution, disunion, division, fractionalization, fractionation, partition, schism, scission, split, sundering
Antonyms: unification, union
Related Words: breach, rupture; divorce, severance; decomposition, disassembly, dismemberment, segmentation, subdivision; atomization, dichotomization, polarization; diffusion, dispersal, dispersion, scattering; administration, apportionment, distribution; isolation, seclusion, segregation, sequestration
Near Antonyms: assemblage, association; attachment, conjunction, connection, link, linkage, linkup; aggregation, combination, consolidation, fusion
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