Breakup definition

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The discontinuance of a relationship, as a marriage or a friendship.
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A loss of control or composure.
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The act or an instance of breaking up.
  • A dispersion.
  • A disintegration or decay.
  • A collapse.
  • A stopping or ending.
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The act of breaking up; disintegration or division.
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The act or an instance of breaking up, as a division, dispersal, or disintegration.
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The cracking and shifting of ice in rivers or harbors during the spring.
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Noun

Singular:
breakup
Plural:
breakups

Breakup Sentence Examples

  • In the latter year he was in charge of the Intelligence Department which largely contributed to breakup the confederacy of Maratha chiefs in the Pindari War, and was of great assistance in the campaign in Rajputana.

  • Outside the Church the breakup of old civilizations, the confused beginnings of medieval kingdoms, with the attendant war and rapine, the inroads of the Saracens and the rise of Islam, were all effective silencers of the pulpit.

  • Demetrius had presented himself in 307 as the liberator, and driven the Macedonian garrison from the Peiraeus; but his own garrisons held Athens thirteen years later, when he was king of Macedonia, and the Antigonid dynasty clung to the points of vantage in Greece, especially Chalcis and Corinth, till their garrisons were finally expelled by the Romans in the name of Hellenic liberty., The new movement of commerce initiated by the conquest of Alexander continued under his successors, though the breakup of the Macedonian Empire in Asia in the 3rd century and the distractions of the Seleucid court must have withheld many advantages from the Greek merchants which a strong central government might have afforded them.

  • Frank was ambivalent about his breakup with Jane.

  • The interesting aspect of this logic is that it assumes the mode of breakup delivery is somehow related to the degree of romantic attachment, without taking into account typical human behavior.

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