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breakup Definition

breakup (-up′)

noun

the act or an instance of breaking up; specif.,

  1. a dispersion
  2. a disintegration or decay
  3. a collapse
  4. 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.