BREAK UP

To cause to separate and go in different directions

Example: "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds"

Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways

Example: "The business partners broke over a tax question"

Disband

Example: "The group broke up"

Break violently or noisily; smash

Make a break in

Example: "We interrupt the program for the following messages"

Cause to go into a solution

Example: "The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water"

Suffer a nervous breakdown

Take apart into its constituent pieces

Destroy the completeness of a set of related items

Example: "The book dealer would not break the set"

Set or keep apart

Example: "Sever a relationship"

Attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example

Example: "Pick open the ice"

Release ice

Example: "The icebergs and glaciers calve"

Close at the end of a session

Example: "The court adjourned"

Bring the association of to an end or cause to break up

Example: "The decree officially dissolved the marriage"

Come to an end

Example: "Their marriage dissolved"

Break or cause to break into pieces

Example: "The plate fragmented"

Cause to separate

Example: "Break up kidney stones"

Separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts

Laugh unrestrainedly