breakup
breakup
Definition
breakup (-up′)
noun
the act or an instance of breaking up; specif.,
- a dispersion
- a disintegration or decay
- a collapse
- a stopping or ending
breakup
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- follow: In the nasty game of musical chairs that followed the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, the Kurds have been left standing.
- have: I'm likely to do what women do when we have breakups, I guess.
- see: We're seeing the breakup and privatization of the NHS.
- decipher: Deciphering continental breakup in eastern Australia by combining apatite ( U-Th)/He and fission track thermochronometers.
- encourage: Wives of the unemployed could obtain no relief unless deserted, a provision which encouraged the breakup of destitute families.
Adjective modifier
- continental: His talk was entitled: Upper mantle seismic structure of the Northern Ethiopian Rift - a region of incipient continental breakup.
- recent: When you have a recent breakup that happens, a person loses the will to love.
Modifies a noun
- date: The average rate of change over the 150-year period was 8.7 days later for freeze dates; and 9.8 days earlier for breakup dates.
Noun used with modifier
- marriage: About 40 % of kids come from single parent families, mostly the result of marriage breakups.
- family: In place of slum-dwelling and the Means Test, problems to do with schooling, crime and family breakup dominate the contemporary social agenda.
- ice: The authors state: " We examined the entire record of ice breakup to look for long-term trends in breakup.
- relationship: Most people don't plan on a relationship breakup.
- cone: The corrugated cloth surround is coated with a damping material to make diaphragm movement more linear and discourage cone breakup.
- bowwow: Back Whole thread for the following message: Thread started by: " Why did ciara and bowwow breakup?
Possessives
- parent: I just don't have a need to see the Hollywood version of my father's drug addiction and my parents ' breakup.
Preposition: of
- relationship: Things like financial problems, the breakup of a relationship, or the death of a loved one can bring on depression.
- empire: Right up until the breakup of the empire, it kept its independent status and would not concede its beloved lands to anyone.
- family: Employment in the new factories, meant, in addition to terrible labor conditions, the breakup of the family.
- marriage: In fact, studies have found that leaving a job can be as stressful as the breakup of a marriage.
- USSR: Consequently, with the breakup of the USSR, Russia was again vying for an influential role on the world stage.
Browse dictionary entries near breakup
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