Antonyms for breakup
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : breyk-uhp |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbreɪkˌʌp |
Definition of breakup
Origin :- 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.
- noun end of relationship
- It was a picture of the breakup of the Outer Federation, and in some ways worse than the other wars.
- Extract from : « Victory » by Lester del Rey
- If we get there before the breakup, we may cross on the ice.
- Extract from : « Johnny Longbow » by Roy J. Snell
- Somehow or other she'd made it across Willow Brook and the breakup had kept her there.
- Extract from : « The Duck-footed Hound » by James Arthur Kjelgaard
- They hadn't said much—because they had liked Rakhal—when the breakup came.
- Extract from : « The Door Through Space » by Marion Zimmer Bradley
- McNeil—or perhaps both he and Ashe—had survived the breakup of the raft, after all.
- Extract from : « The Time Traders » by Andre Norton
- What is happening to us all is the breakup of the entire system.
- Extract from : « The Secret Places of the Heart » by H. G. Wells
- The speaker, like most of us in this period of breakup following the Great War, was rather bewildered.
- Extract from : « Behind the Mirrors » by Clinton W. Gilbert
- As it was the first breakup I had ever witnessed, the sight was most interesting and fascinating.
- Extract from : « The Beaver, Volume 1, No. 10, July, 1921. » by Hudson's Bay Company
- The next week, Andy finished his job with the Casmans and, just as Jud had predicted, the breakup followed.
- Extract from : « Swamp Cat » by James Arthur Kjelgaard
- All feasts come to an end at last, and the breakup of things was precipitated by alarming symptoms on the part of Master Punt.
- Extract from : « The History of Mr. Polly » by H. G. Wells
Synonyms for breakup
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