Crossword clues for breakup
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Breakup \Break"up`\, Break-up \Break"-up`\, n. Disruption; coming apart; a separation and dispersion of the parts or members; as, a break-up of a meeting, assembly, or dinner party; the break-up of a spacecraft on re-entry into the atmosphere.
Syn: separation, detachment.
2. the termination of a relationship; a break-up of the government; the break-up of a marriage; the break-up of a business partnership; the break-up of a comedy team.
Syn: dissolution.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also break-up, 1795, from verbal expression break up (mid-15c.), which was used originally of plowland, later of groups, assemblies, etc. Of things (also of marriages, relationships), "to disintegrate," from mid-18c. See break (v.) + up (adv.). Break it up as a command to stop a fight, etc., is recorded from 1936.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of break up; disintegration or division 2 The termination of a friendship, or a romantic relationship 3 A loss of emotional control; a breakdown 4 (''Alaska'') Spring
WordNet
n. the termination of a relationship [syn: dissolution]
coming apart [syn: separation, detachment]
Wikipedia
A relationship breakup, often referred to simply as a breakup, is the termination of an intimate relationship by any means other than death. The act is commonly termed "dumping [someone]" in slang when it is initiated by one partner. The term is less likely to be applied to a married couple, where a breakup is typically called a separation or divorce. When a couple engaged to be married breaks up, it is typically called a "broken engagement".
Susie Orbach (1992) has argued that the dissolution of dating and cohabiting relationships can be as painful as or more painful than divorce because these nonmarital relationships are less socially recognized.
Usage examples of "breakup".
From the Triassic to the Holocene, from Pangaea through the breakup of the supercontinent into what eventually became the modern configuration of continents, he liked to find his pencils sharp and where he expected them to be.
Breakup of the Reld Current, and the vicious spawning ground of new currents.
If anything, he suggested hopefully, the spring conditions and the breakup of the pack ice greatly improved their chances of finding Ulva spores floating freely in the surface waters of the Atlantic.
The result was the breakup of the collection, the dispersal of all those works of art to museums around the world, and the sale of the villa to the American university, which established some form of summer camp in the building that had once echoed to the voices of the leading literary and artistic figures of Europe.
Farmers scratched the ground again, charcoal burners ritually sealed their kilns and put their hands to carpentry or roadmending for a while, and fifteen hundred devotees of the Ice Cult started their pilgrimages from all over North America to see the breakup at Niagara.
At the outset of the breakup of Yugoslavia, if we had had this type of capability, without potentially high costs, to counter effectively the widely predicted invasion of Bosnia, the U.
Chris entirely for the breakup of his marriage, he was somewhat cautious around him.
Lubbock, Lydia had a violent breakup with her first serious boyfriend, a skate-punk Nintendo freak.
Immediately following that breakup, she went without sleep for six days, writing songs and playing guitar until her fingers bled.
You remember, they grew out of the breakup of the old Croix de Feu, only about ten times worse.
Perhaps he had lost a few pounds since their breakup, Rae thought, which only accentuated his sharp features and deep-set eyes.
Instead, she pulled a spare chair directly behind Beach and settled into it, listening silently to the computer give its slightly broken translation as Raimey told Beltrenini about his fiery breakup with Drusni.
Over half the admits to psych wards are things like cheerleaders who swallow two bottles of Mydol over a high-school breakup or gray lonely asexual depressing people rendered inconsolable by the death of a pet.
The breakup of the old Bounty Hunters Guild, for which Boba Fett had been largely responsible, had left a lot of creatures throughout the galaxy with a simmering hatred for Fett.
It was the same haughty tone of voice that Neelah had used on him, ordering him to continue telling the story of Boba Fett and the breakup of the old Bounty Hunters Guild, and it had been more effective than any blaster pistol she could have pulled on him.