Break Up

Definition: Break Up

Break Up

Verb

1. To cause to separate and go in different directions, of crowds, for example; "She waved her hand and scattered the crows.".

2. 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".

3. Come apart.

4. Break violently or noisily; smash;.

5. Make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages".

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

7. Suffer a nervous breakdown.

8. Take apart into its constituent pieces.

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

10. : set or keep apart; "sever a relationship".

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

12. : release ice; of icebergs or glaciers.

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

14. : terminate (legally); "Their marriage dissolved".

15. : break or cause to break into pieces; "The plate fragmented"; "I don't want to break up the group".

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

17. : separate into constituent elements or parts, as of chemical substances.

18. : laugh unrestrainedly.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Publishing & Graphic Arts

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Synonyms: Break Up

Death

Euthanasia; break up of the system; natural death, natural decay; sudden death, violent death; untimely end, watery grave; debt of nature; suffocation, asphyxia; fatal disease. (disease); death blow. (killing).

Decomposition

Verb: decompose, decompound; analyze, disembody, dissolve; resolve into its elements, separate into its elements; electrolyze; dissect, decentralize, break up; disperse; unravel; (unroll); crumble into dust.

Destruction

Verb: be destroyed; perish; fall to the ground; tumble, topple; go to pieces, fall to pieces; break up; crumble to dust; go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, go to wreck, go to pot, go to wrack and ruin; go by the board, go all to smash; be all over, be all up, be all with; totter to its fall.

Eboulement, smash, havoc, delabrement, debacle; break down, break up, fall apart; prostration; desolation, bouleversement, wreck, wrack, shipwreck, cataclysm; washout.

Destroy; do away with, make away with; nullify; annual; sacrifice, demolish; tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset, subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish, undo; break up, cut up; break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down; suppress, quash, put down, do a job on; cut short, take off, blot out; dispel, dissipate, dissolve; consume.

Deterioration

Blight, rot; corrode, erode; wear away, wear out; gnaw, gnaw at the root of; sap, mine, undermine, shake, sap the foundations of, break up; disorganize, dismantle, dismast; destroy.

Disease

Fatal disease; (hopeless); dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard cough; general breaking up, break up of the system.

Disjunction

Cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize; dislimb; take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces; tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb; divellicate; skin; disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband; disperse; dislocate, disjoint; break up; mince; comminute; (pulverize); apportion.

End

Break up, commencement de la fin, last stage, turning point; coup de grace, deathblow; knock-out, -blow; sockdolager.

Revolution

Noun: revolution, bouleversement, subversion, break up; destruction; sudden change, radical change, sweeping organic change; change of state, phase change; quantum leap, quantum jump; clean sweep, coup d'etat, counter revolution.

Crosswords: Break Up

Why did you break up the encounter with my pet python? (Moonraker; writing credit: Christopher Wood)

Who am I to break up the Roundup Gang? (Toy Story 2; writing credit: John Lasseter; Peter Docter)

I've got exactly four days to break up a wedding, steal the bride's fella and I haven't one clue how to do it. (My Best Friend's Wedding; writing credit: Ronald Bass)

So all we have to do is get in, break up the wedding, steal the princess, make our escape after I kill Count Rugen. (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman)

If she can't find me, she can't break up with me! (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

You think you're gonna break up (Things We Do For Love; performing artist: 10 CC)

Why, why some people break up ("Let's Stay Together"; performing artist: Al Green)

Fools run rings to break up, something they'll never destroy. (Notorious; performing artist: Duran Duran)

Or break up my train of thought (TIL I HEAR IT FROM YOU; performing artist: Gin Blossoms)

PEOPLE MAKE MISTAKE TO MAKE UP,TO BREAK UP,TO WAKE UP (All I Have; performing artist: Jennifer Lopez)

When Mom and Dad Break Up (1987)

How to Break Up a Happy Divorce (1976)

Break Up to Make Up (performing artist: Stylistics)

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Books

• 50 Ways to Break Up With Your Lover (reference)

• Mom and Dad Break Up (reference)

• The Deal of the Century: The Break Up of At&T (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Break Up (reference)

• When Mom and Dad Break Up (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Break Up at the Rock Show [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

• Break Up Break Down (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Mass Spectrometers produce high-energy electrons which break up the molecules for use in identifying substances. Credit: CDC.

Divorce does more than break up marriages... Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Don't break up the harmony. Credit: Library of Congress.

A police dog attacking an African American man, as police break up crowd gathered outside court house, Jackson, Mississippi, for trial of sit-in demonstrators. Credit: Library of Congress.

Break up after game, World's Championship Series, White Sox vs. Cubs, American League grounds, Sunday, Oct. 14, 1906. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Impossible to hide ourselves in the interior without the artists perceiving us, then they would leave and break up the play.

Ruthie squatted down to break up the twigs for Ma.

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Health

A nonsurgical procedure using shock waves to break up kidney stones. (references)

Bile salts break up fat, and bilirubin gives bile and stool a brownish color. (references)

This treatment uses shock waves to break up stones into tiny pieces that can pass through the bile ducts without causing blockages. (references)

Business

A sector wise break up of IT spending is given in the Table 13 below. (references)

These measures are expected to introduce new operations and funding mechanisms for medical institutions, break up monopolies and install a competition mechanism among and within hospitals, sever economic ties between hospitals and pharmaceutical sales companies, rationalize prices for medical services and further advance pharmaceutical and healthcare reform. (references)

Civil Liberties

Turkmenistan

The police failed to break up the demonstration, which resulted in the reopening of the market in Dashoguz. (references)

Zimbabwe

Police were deployed in large numbers, reportedly to discourage attendance; however, they did not break up the meeting. (references)

Malaysia

This was one of the first instances in which riot police were called to break up a political gathering outside of Kuala Lumpur. (references)

Economic History

Norway

For example, the Competition Act of 1993 (the antitrust law) empowers the authorities to break up any arrangement that thwarts competition. (references)

Norway

Acquisition and Takeovers: Antitrust legislation (Price Control Act of 1953) empowers the authorities to break up any restrictive arrangement that may have a harmful impact on production, prices, and/or distribution. (references)

Human Rights

Korea

In April and June, police used force to break up demonstrations, some of which had turned violent. (references)

Political Economy

TAIWAN

Liberalization efforts have resulted in the break up of state-owned enterprises' monopolies in wireless and fixed line telecommunications, power generation, and gasoline supply. (references)

Western Sahara

During the year, there were no new developments related to the investigation of police abuses committed in the Western Sahara city of Laayoune in September and October 1999, during which police authorities used force to break up demonstrations organized by students, unemployed graduates, miners, and former Sahrawi political prisoners, who were protesting a variety of social grievances. (references)

Worker Rights

Djibouti

Police used tear gas and clubs to break up the strike. (references)

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Expressions using "break up": break up into ♦ break up of the system ♦ break up the sand ♦ break up the session ♦ to break up. Additional references.

Albanian

trazoj (agitate, commingle, dash, dismay, distemper, disturb, fidget, flitter, flurry, fluster, flutter, harass, Harry, incommode, intermix, jumble, knead, perturb, poke, pother, ruffle, shuffle, stir, turn, vex), shqetësoj (agitate, ail, alarm, bother, concern, denationalize, discommode, discompose, disquiet, distemper, distress, disturb, eat, embarrass, fash, flurry, fret, Harrow, Harry, incommode, move, peeve, perturb, plague, pother, preoccupy, ruffle, trouble, vex, worry), shpërndahem (disband, disperse, dissipate, grow dim, lift, outreach, reach, scatter, spread, spread out, straggle, thin), shkërmoq (crumble), ndërpres (abort, break, call, cease, cut off, desist, discontinue, heckle, intercept, interjaculate, intermit, interrupt, intersect, leave off, punctuate, stop, strangulate, suspend), i jap fund (abate, close, cut, discontinue, disestablish, dissolve, end, finish, kill, overthrow, quench, stop). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فكك (disassemble, disconnect, disjoin, disjoint, dismantle, dismember, dissociate, disunite, take apart, take to pieces, tear down), ‏فك (chap, detach, disassemble, disconnect, disengage, disentangle, disjoint, dismantle, dissociate, disunite, free, jaw, jaws, jowl, loose, loosening, mandible, release, separate, set free, take apart, take to pieces, undo, unfasten, unfix, untangle, untie, untying, unwind), ‏فتت (crumb, crumble, flake, fragment, fragmentize, fritter), ‏فصل (adjudge, adjudicate, arrive at a resolution, break, cashier, cut, cut off, decide, decision, demarcation, detach, detail, determine, discharge, disconnect, disconnection, disentangle, disjoin, disjunction, dismiss, displace, displacement, dissociate, dissociate oneself from, dissociation, disunite, divide, division, elaborate, expel, fire, have a final word, isolate, isolation, itemize, judge, lay off, make a decision, part, particularize, parting, partition, remove, render a judgement, resolve, sack, seclude, seclusion, segregate, segregation, separate, separation, set apart, settle, sever, severance, sunder, wean), ‏كسر الثلج, ‏قسم (administration, allocate, allot, apportion, authority, bisect, deal out, department, distribute, district, divide, division, give out, halve, parcel, part, partition, portion, portion out, region, section, segment, separate, service, share, share out, split, subdivide, swear, take an oath), ‏وضع حد (demolish, end, make shift, stop), ‏حطم (break, crack, dash, disintegrate, extinguish, shatter, shipwreck, shiver, sink, smash, undo, wrack, wreak, wreck), ‏تفرق (dissipation, disunion, divide, part, parting, pass off, separate, split up, straggle, strewing, thin), ‏توقف عن شىء, ‏تجزأ (divide, split), ‏إنفصل (become airborne, break away, break with, dissociate, dissociate oneself from, estrange, segment, separate, sever, split up, sunder, tear oneself away), ‏إنهاء (dissolution, ending, solution, windup, wrap up), ‏إنشق (cleave, crack, fissure, gap, rip, rive, splinter, split), ‏إختتم (conclude, round off, seal). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разтурвам (call off, disarrange), развалям (alloy, bitch, blunder, change, contaminate, corrupt, deprave, disaffirm, injure, louse up, mangle, mess about, mess around, muddle, murder, mutilate, nip, perish, queer, spoil, uglify, undo, vitiate), разделям (come between, disconnect, dispart, dissever, disunite, divide, divorce, divvy, lot, parcel out, part, partition, plot, portion, segment, segregate, separate, sever, share, slice, split, split up, sunder, uncouple, unjoin, win away). (various references)

Chinese 

驅散 (disperse), 粉碎 (crash), 掊 (hit, M for small objects, take up in both hands). (various references)

Czech

vylomit (break into), roztrhat (lacerate, pull apart, pull to pieces, rip up, savage, sunder, tear, tear apart, tear asunder, tear up), rozpustit (disband, dismiss, dissolve, fuse, melt, resolve, take down), rozprášit (disperse, rout), rozpadnout, rozejít se (disject, disperse, estrange, fall out, part, separate, sheer off, split up), rozehnat (disperse, scatter), rozebrat se, rozbít se (come apart, shatter), rozbít (break, bust, crack, dash, destroy, pitch, shatter, smash, sunder, wreck), praskat (crackle, creak), demontovat (dismantle, dismount), chátrat (dilapidate, go to the bad, run to seed). (various references)

Danish

luftning af sand (aerate the sand, break up the sand, cut sand), Laue-pletterne er udtvaerede;i den polygoniserede tilstand bliver Debye-Scherrer-linierne en smule smallere,fordi underkorngraenserne bliver fine,men de udtvaerede Laue-pletter deler sig op (since the sub-grain size remains fine but the asterism spots break up, the Laue-spots show a marked asterism. In the polygonized condition the Debye-Scherrer lines become only slightly finer), formaalet med skrabegrejet er mekanisk at nedbryde den saakaldte mud cake under nedsaetningen af foringsroeret og ved foringsroerets bevaegelser (the purpose of the scratchers is to break up the(mud)cake as the casing is run and during movement of the casing(i.e.reciprocation or rotation)), aflægge en sats (break up type, distribute). (various references)

Dutch

zich verspreiden (separate), vaneengaan (separate), uiteengaan (separate), scheiden (disintegrate, divide, get a divorce, get divorced, separate). (various references)

Esperanto

disiri (separate). (various references)

Finnish

romuttaa (scrap), muokata (curry, dress, prepare, till, work up), mennä hajalle (go apart, go to pieces), möyhentää (loosen), hajota (dissolve), hajaantua (disperse, dissolve, scatter). (various references)

French

faire finir, éclater (break), avoir le fou rire, couper (break), craquer, démolir (break down), désagréger, désosser la forme (break-up), éclatement (break down), dissocier/se, se quitter, mettre fin � , prendre fin, rompre (break, break off), séparation, se couper en morceaux, se désagréger, se disperser, disperser (break apart/to). (various references)

German

zerschlagen (annihilate, batter, crush, dash, fragment, scupper, shatter, shattered, slab, smash, smash to pieces, snuff, subject, to annihilate, to batter, to break up, to shatter, to slab, washed out, worn out), auseinandergehen (branch, come apart, differ, disperse, diverge, divide, fall apart, fork, get fat, part, pull apart, rising, separate). (various references)

Greek 

σπάζω (break, bust, crack, fracture, go bust, smash, snap), διαλύω σχέση. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תפרק (come apart, disband, fall to pieces, snug), פצול (decentralization, split, splitting). (various references)

Hungarian

valaminek a vége (the end of), véget ér (surcease, to determine, to draw to a close, to fold up, to peter out, to surcease, to wind up), széttörik, szétosztás (allocation, apportionment, decentralization, dispensation, dispensing, disposition, distribution), feltör (gush out, to break open, to flush, to force sg open, to gush forth, to gush out, to prize open, to prize out, to spout, to strike pay dirt), felosztás (apportionment, disbandment, dismemberment, division, partition, share out, splitting, subdivision), feloszt (apportion, dismember, distribute, divide, divvy, parcel, partition, share out, subdivide, to allot, to apportion, to dislocate, to dismember, to distribute, to divide, to divide up, to divvy, to parcel out, to section out, to segment, to share out, to space, to space out, to split), felbontás (breakdown, cancellation, dissociation, resolution, scanning, undoing). (various references)

Indonesian

menggilas (crush, see: gilas), af (break off). (various references)

Italian

sfacelo (debacle, disrepair), scomporre (decompose, disassemble, discompose, disjoint, dismember), sciogliere (be dissolved, crack, deatch, detach, disband, dissolve, loose, loosen, melt, release, render, resolve, set free, shake out, solve, thaw, unbend, unbind, unchain, undo, unfix, untie), sbandare (disperse, list to, scatter, skid to, slide), indebolirsi (weaken), frantumare (crumble, crush, grind, pestle, rag, rupture, shatter, shiver, slab, smash, stamp, to shatter), fare a pezzi (chop, crash, hack, savage), dividere (cut, divide, parcel out, part, partition, Rive, separate, share, slice, split, spread), disgregare (disgregate, disintegrate, disjoint, disrupt), disfacimento (decay, decomposition, disruption), demolire (abate, break down, demolish, disestablish, pull, pull apart, pull down, scrap, shake, shoot down, take, take down, tear down), concludere (abstract, clinch, close, complete, conclude, deduce, do, end up, finalize, finish, gather, induce, infer, make, make a contract, put through, tie up, top off, wrap up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

分裂 (division, split). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たいさ�" (acid-resistant, disperse), ぶ�"れつ (division, filing off, split). (various references)

Manx

traa feailley, tenniu, scuirr (abort, adjourn, adjournment, bring to, cease, ceasing, cessation, desist, discontinuance, discontinue, halt, intermission, intermittence, leave off, let up, pause, prorogation, prorogue, pull up, respite, rest, retirement, ring off; interval, shut off, stall, stop), scarrey (alienate, alienation, break away, break off, come away, detach, detachment; spread, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, disjunction, dissociate, dissociation, distinguish, disunion, disunite, diverge, divergence, divide, divorce, draw apart; spacing, insulation, leaving, part, part with, parting, relinquish, schism, secede, secession, segment, segregate, segregation, separate, separating, separation, sever, severance, shut off, slough, split up, start, sunder), brooillaghey (crumble), branley (breaking up, fallow), branlaghey (fallow). (various references)

Pig Latin

eakbray upay

Portuguese

romper (breach, break, break off, cut off, cut up, disconnect, disrupt, fracture, open, part, pierce, rip, run, rupture, sever, snap, splinter, split, tear), fragmentar (comminute, disintegrate), dispersar (disband, disject, dismiss, dispel, disperse, dispose of, dissipate, distract, drive away, scatter). (various references)

Romanian

intra în vacanţã, întrerupe o conferinţã, afâna (loosen, mellow), demola o clãdire, desţeleni (dig up, fallow), desfunda un drum, dezagregare (disintegration, disruption, dissolution, weathering), dezintegrare (disintegration, dissolution), împrãştia o mulţime, dogi (crack), se strica (addle, corrupt, decay, deteriorate, fester, go bad, go phut, ret, retrogress, spoil, turn), intrare în vacanţã, prãbuşire (break, break down, burst up, collapse, crack up, crash, debacle, decay, downfall, drop, fall, labefaction), ruinã (bankruptcy, burst up, decay, perdition, ruin, ruination, shipwreck, wreck), rupe în bucãţi (pull in pieces, shred, tear to pieces, tear to ribbons), schimbare a vremii, se împrãştia (blow away, break, disband, dissipate, lift, scatter, shrink away, spill, thin), se încheia (close, come to a close), se dezmembra, dispersare (decomposition, dispersal, dispersion). (various references)

Russian 

расформировывать (deactivate, disband, disembody), разойтись (go away, part), разнести (carry, convey, deliver, scatter), разломать, разбиваться, разбивать (defeat, demolish, drub, scatter, shatter, smashes, split up, trounce). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

raspustiti se, raspariti, raskinuti (pull apart, rupture). (various references)

Spanish

dispersarse (break, fan, melt away, scatter), cambiar (alter, back, barter, be exchanged, break, change, chop, conjure, deflect, dislocate, distort, drop, exchange, interchange, shift, swap, swap around, swap over, swap round, swing, switch, swop, to exchange, transfer, turn, turn about, turn around, turn round, vary, veer), cerrarse (close, fasten, knit up, lockable, shut, shut down), desarticular (disarticulate, disjoint), desconcertar (abash, baffle, bewilder, confound, confuse, disconcert, disorder, faze, maze, mystify, put off, put out, puzzle, throw, throw out, upset), desglosarse, desguazar (scrap, total), deshacer (break, leak, smash, tear, tear up, throw over, undo, unpack), deshacerse (come apart, dispose of, fall apart, fall to pieces, make away with, palm, throw off), desmembrarse, desmenuzarse, disgregarse (disincorporate), acabar con (abate, be through with, blast, break, break down, dash, destroy, do away with, finish, kill, nail, polish off, put down, remove, settle, sink, tear up, wreck), disolverse (disband, dissolve, melt), terminar el curso (go down), dividir (come between, cut, cut up, delimit, disjoint, disperse, divide, divide off, excrete, part, partition, portion, separate, share, sunder), dividirse (be divided, divide, divide off, split), hacer reír a carcajadas, hacerse pedazos (break, leak, shatter, smash), levantar (adjourn, boost, build, dig up, draw up, elevate, erect, flush, get up, heave, heft, hitch, hoist, hold up, Jack, lever, lift, lift up, pick up, prick, pull up, push up, put up, raise, raise up, rear, ring up, rouse, set up, spring, start, take, tip, to raise, up, wind up), levantarse (arise, get up, getup, lift, pant, pick oneself up, raise, raise oneself, rise, run high, set in, stand, stand up, tip up, tumble out, turn out, uprise), mudar (alter, back, break, change, convert, Molt, moult, move, mutate, shed, Slough, slough off, throw, transfer, turn, turn about, turn around, vary, veer), parcelar (split up), romperse (break, come apart, fall apart, give, leak, live, part), separar (break off, come between, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, divide, get away, hive off, keep away, move away, open, pull apart, segregate, separate, sever, take away), separarse (break, break away, break off, come asunder, come away, disjoin, divide, drop off, drop out, fly off, part, secede, separate, split), disolver (disband, dismiss, dissolve, solve). (various references)

Swedish

upplösa (decompose, disband, disintegrate, dismiss, disorganize, dissociate, dissolve, disunite, sissolve, wind up). (various references)

Turkish

bozulmak (addle, break down, bust, collapse, conk, decay, decline, deteriorate, disrupt, dwindle, ebb, fail, get out of hand, get out of order, go bad, go haywire, go off, go sour, go under, go wrong, lose face, perish, retrograde, retrogress, rot, sour, spoil, stale, taint, turn, turn sour, upset), bitmek (adore, be at an end, be out of smth., be very fond of, break off, cease, come to an end, conclude, die down, drop, end, end off, end up, expire, fag, finish, lapse, lay off, leave off, quit, run out, sprout, stop, surcease, terminate, vegetate, wear out), bitirmek (bring to an end, bring to completion, call it off, carry through, cease, clean up, clear off, close, complete, conclude, consume, deplete, drink, end, end off, exhaust, expend, fetch up, finish, fulfil, fulfill, get through, graduate, leave off, make an end of, play out, point, polish off, put a stop to, put an end to, put through, round out, run out, sign off, snuff out, swallow up, terminate, use up, wind up, work off, wrap it up), ufalamak (chaff, chip off, comminute, crumb, crumble, pulverize, scrap), tatile girmek, parçalanmak (break, break to pieces, come apart, crash, crumble, crush, decay, digest, disintegrate, disrupt, fall to pieces, fly to pieces, go into splinters, go splinters, go to pieces, rend, rupture, shatter, shiver, shred, smash, Spall, splinter, split, split off), parçalamak (bash in, break into pieces, calve, comminute, crumble, cut smth. asunder, cut up, dash, disintegrate, disjoint, dismantle, dismember, disrupt, lacerate, pull to pieces, rend, scrap, shatter, shiver, shred, smash, smash in, smash up, Spall, splinter, split, take to pieces, tear to pieces, total), eğlendirmek (amuse, beguile, divert, entertain, feast, recreate, regale, tickle), ayrılmak (apostatize, be off, be through with, break away, break with, check out, come unstuck, cut loose, decamp, defect, depart, desert, deviate, disunite, divaricate, diverge, divide, divorce, divorce from, draw apart, draw away, drop out, fork, furcate, get clear of, get off, give up, graduate, hive off, lead away from, leave, mosey, move off, part, part company, part company with, part from, part with, pull away, pull out, quit, retire, revolt, revolt from, secede, segregate, separate, sever, splinter off, split, split off, split up, stray, sunder, take one's farewell of, tear oneself away, unstuck, vacate, walk off, walk out, walk out of, withdraw), üzmek (affect, afflict, aggrieve, agitate, cast down, chagrin, deject, desolate, disgruntle, distress, fret, grieve, grind, grind down, hatchel, hit, lacerate, lead smb. a dance, mope, pain, pother, put out, sadden, shake, spite, trouble, vex, worry). (various references)

Turkmen 

зaюmak (come apart, disperse). (various references)

Ukrainian

скресати, слабнути (attenuate, droop, fail, faint, let up, tone down), розруха (break down), розформувати, розвал, розпускати (disband, disembody, disincorporate, dissolve, loose, unbridle, unfurl), розпад (catalysis, disintegration, fragmentation), мінятися (alter, change, niffer, shift, swap, switch, swop, vary), закривати (bar, blench, close, close down, close up, fasten up, flounce, obturate, occlude, occult, shut), припинення (bust up, cancellation, cease, cessation, delay, discontinuance, discontinuation, elision, shutdown, stop, stopping, surcease, termination), поділ (differentiation, divide, division, fission, lap, parceling, parcelling). (various references)

comminuam, comminuens, comminuerentur, comminuerunt, comminues, comminuet, comminuetis, comminuetur, comminuisset, comminuit, comminuite, comminuta, comminutus, discerpo, dividam, dividamur, dividant, dividat, dividatur, divide, dividebant, dividebantur, dividebat, dividebatque, dividens, divident, dividentem, dividentes, dividentque, dividentur, dividere, dividerent, divideres, divideret, divides, dividesque, dividet, dividetis, dividetur, dividit, dividite, dividitur, dividunt, dividuntur, divisa, divisae, divisam, divisaque, diviserunt, diviseruntque, divisi, divisique, divisis, divisisset, divisisti, divisit, divisitque, diviso, divisum, divisus, interrupit, interrupta, solvo. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: breakup.

-1 letter: upbear.

-2 letters: baker, brake, break, burke, kebar, pareu.

-3 letters: aper, bake, bare, bark, beak, bear, beau, brae, bura, burp, kbar, kerb, pare, park, peak, pear, perk, prau, puke, pure, rake, rape, reap, rube, urea.

-4 letters: ape, arb, are, ark, auk, bap, bar, bra, bur, ear, eau, era, kab, kae, kea, kep, kue, par, pea.

+1 letter: breakups.

+2 letters: parbuckle, superbank.

+3 letters: bankrupted, parbuckled, parbuckles, superbanks.

+5 letters: bankruptcies.