| Meaning | To cause to separate and go in different directions. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody | |
| Synonyms | disperse, dissipate, dispel, scatter | |
| Narrower | disband | Cause to break up or cease to function |
| Broader | separate, divide | make a division or separation |
| Spanish | disiparse, disipar, dispersar | |
| Catalan | dispersar, dissipar-se, dissipar | |
| Meaning | discontinue an association / association / association or relation; go different ways / ways. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Synonyms | separate, part, split up, split, break | |
| Narrower | break, break away | interrupt a continued activity |
| break with | end a relationship / relationship | |
| disassociate, dissociate, divorce, disunite, disjoint | Part | |
| disunify, break apart | Break up or separate | |
| divorce, split up | Get a divorce | |
| give the axe, give the bounce, give the gate | terminate a relationship / relationship abruptly | |
| secede, splinter, break away | Withdraw from an organization or communion | |
| Spanish | distanciarse, separarse, separar | |
| Catalan | distanciar-se, separar-se, separar | |
| Nouns | breakup | the termination or disintegration of a relationship / relationship (between persons or nations) |
| breakup | coming apart | |
| Meaning | come apart. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s | |
| Narrower | disband, dissolve | stop functioning or cohering as a unit |
| Broader | separate, part, split | Go one's own way / way |
| Spanish | disgregarse, separarse | |
| Nouns | breakup | coming apart |
| Meaning | break violently or noisily; smash. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP | |
| Synonyms | crash, break apart | |
| Caused by | crash | Cause to crash |
| Broader | disintegrate | break / break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity |
| See also | break | go to pieces |
| Similar to | crash | Cause to crash |
| Spanish | estrellarse, quebrarse, separar, terminar | |
| Catalan | esclatar, estavellar-se, rompre, topar, trencar-se, trencar, xocar | |
| Meaning | make a break / break in. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | interrupt, disrupt, cut off | |
| Narrower | break | interrupt the flow of current in |
| burst in on, burst upon | spring suddenly | |
| chime in, cut in, put in, butt in, chisel in, barge in, break in | break into a conversation | |
| cut, cut off | Cease, stop / stop | |
| heckle | challenge aggressively | |
| interject, come in, interpose, put in, throw in, inject | To insert / insert between other elements | |
| jam, block | interfere with or prevent the reception of signals | |
| pause, intermit, break | Cease an action temporarily | |
| punctuate | interrupt periodically | |
| put away, put aside | turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily | |
| stop, stop over | interrupt a trip | |
| take off, take time off | Take time off from work | |
| Broader | break, break off, discontinue, stop | prevent completion |
| Spanish | cortar, interrumpir, parar, romper, suspender | |
| Catalan | aturar, interrompre | |
| Meaning | Cause to go into a solution. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | dissolve, resolve | |
| Cause to | dissolve | Pass into a solution |
| Narrower | cut | dissolve by breaking down the fat of |
| melt, run, melt down | Reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating | |
| Broader | change integrity | change in physical make-up |
| Spanish | deshacer, diluir, disolver | |
| Catalan | desfer, diluir, dissoldre | |
| Meaning | Suffer a nervous breakdown. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Synonyms | crack up, crack, crock up, collapse | |
| Broader | suffer, sustain, have, get | Undergo (as of injuries and illnesses) |
| Catalan | tenir un col·lapse nerviós | |
| Meaning | take apart into its constituent pieces. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break apart | |
| Entailed by | cannibalize, cannibalise | Use parts of something to repair something else |
| Narrower | strike | Disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set |
| Broader | destroy, destruct | Do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of |
| See also | break | ruin completely |
| Opposite | assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together | Create by putting components or members together |
| Spanish | desarmar, desarticular, desmantelar, desmontar | |
| Catalan | desarmar, desarticular, desmantellar, desmuntar | |
| Meaning | Destroy the completeness of a set of related items. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonym | break | |
| Broader | change, alter, modify | Cause to change |
| Similar to | break | Exchange for smaller units of money |
| Meaning | set or keep apart. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Synonym | sever | |
| Broader | separate, disunite, divide, part | Force, take, or pull apart |
| See also | break | ruin completely |
| Similar to | discerp, sever, lop | cut off from a whole |
| Spanish | cortar, romper, separarse, separar, terminar | |
| Catalan | desunir, esporgar, podar, separar-se, separar | |
| Meaning | attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonym | pick | |
| Entails | chop, hack | cut with a hacking tool |
| Broader | pierce | cut or make a way through |
| Spanish | picar | |
| Meaning | Release ice. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Synonym | calve | |
| Broader | separate, divide, part | come apart |
| Spanish | liberar hielo, romperse el hielo, romperse | |
| Meaning | Close at the end of a session. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | adjourn, recess | |
| Broader | end, stop, finish, terminate, cease | Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense |
| Spanish | aplazar, posponer | |
| Catalan | ajornar, aplaçar | |
| Meaning | Bring the association / association / association of to an end or cause to break up. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Synonym | dissolve | |
| Broader | end, terminate | Bring to an end or halt |
| Similar to | dissolve, dismiss | declare void |
| Spanish | romper | |
| Catalan | dissoldre, trencar | |
| Meaning | Come to an end. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Synonym | dissolve | |
| Broader | end, terminate | Bring to an end or halt |
| Spanish | romper | |
| Catalan | dissoldre, trencar | |
| Meaning | break or cause to break into pieces. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody of something | |
| Synonyms | fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise | |
| Narrower | atomize, atomise | Break up into small particles |
| brecciate | break into breccia | |
| crumb | break into crumbs | |
| crush | break into small pieces | |
| grate, grind | make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together | |
| grind, mash, crunch, bray, comminute | Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | |
| pound | break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle | |
| rag | break into lumps before sorting | |
| splinter, sliver | Break up into splinters or slivers | |
| sunder | break apart or in two, using violence | |
| Broader | break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart | Become separated / separated into pieces or fragments |
| Spanish | fragmentarse, fragmentar | |
| Catalan | fragmentar-se, fragmentar, partir-se, partir, trencar-se, trencar | |
| Meaning | Cause to separate. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "break up kidney stones" | |
| Synonyms | disperse, scatter | |
| Narrower | backscatter | scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes |
| Broader | change integrity | change in physical make-up |
| Spanish | dispersarse, dispersar | |
| Catalan | dispersar-se, dispersar, escampar | |
| Meaning | separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | decompose, break down | |
| Category | chemistry, chemical science | The science of matter |
| Narrower | crack | Reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking |
| digest | soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture | |
| dissociate | To undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms | |
| Broader | separate | divide into components or constituents |
| See also | break | become separated / separated into pieces or fragments |
| Spanish | descomponer | |
| Catalan | descompondre | |
| Meaning | laugh unrestrainedly. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Synonym | crack up | |
| Broader | laugh, express joy, express mirth | produce laughter |
| Spanish | morirse de risa, partirse de risa, troncharse | |
| Catalan | riure | |
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