break-up

Verb

(third-person singular simple present breaks up, present participle breaking up, simple past broke up, past participle broken up)

(intransitive) To break or separate into pieces; to disintegrate or come apart.
It broke up when it hit the ground.
(intransitive, idiomatic) To end a relationship.
She broke up with her boyfriend last week.
(intransitive, idiomatic) To dissolve; to part.
The meeting finally broke up after a three-hour discussion.
(intransitive, idiomatic) Of a school, to close for the holidays at the end of term.
(intransitive, idiomatic) Of a telephone conversation, to cease to be understandable because of a bad connection.
You're breaking up. Can you repeat that?
To break or separate into pieces.
Break up the cheese and put it in the salad.
(idiomatic) To stop a fight; to separate people who are fighting.
The police came in to break up the disturbance.
(intransitive, idiomatic, figuratively) Become disorganised

Anagrams

upbreak

Noun

(plural break-ups)

Alternative spelling of breakup.

Verb

(third-person singular simple present breaks-up, present participle breaking-up, simple past broke-up, past participle broken-up)

Alternative spelling of break up.

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Stress caused by work, marital dissatisfaction, family break-up caused by divorce, entering a step-family relationship, lower family income or increasing expenses, all produce increased individual and family stress.
The songs chronicle Ruess' break-up with his longtime girlfriend (the title refers to the fact that every time Ruess and his girlfriend got back together, they bought a dog in hopes of "fixing" their relationship).
A group of 90 literary agents, film industry managers and movie producers read the scripts submitted.Past winners have included Patrick Andrew O'Connor's The Break-Up Artist and Rodney Johnson's Queen Sized.
No matter what precipitated the break-up, co-parents benefit from treating child-rearing issues like business deals and avoid letting emotions cloud their judgment during any co-parenting communications.
This also explains why people break-up and get back together over and over again until someone decides the pain of the break-ups in not worth the short-term high of getting back together.

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