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

1. Money problems often lead to marital breakups.
2. She's just gone through a bad breakup with her boyfriend.
3. He began drinking heavily following the breakup of his marriage.
4. a couple heading for marital breakup
5. What caused the breakup of the Roman Empire?
6. the breakup of a monopoly
7. 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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Rhymes with BREAKUP

break up, make up, rake up, shake up, take up