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Synonyms for breakup

Grammar : Noun
Spell : breyk-uhp
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbreɪkˌʌp

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Définition 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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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