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English to English verb
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to cause to separate and go in different directions |  | Example: She waved her hand and scattered the crowds
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discontinue an association or relation; go different ways | | Example: The business partners broke over a tax question
The couple separated after 25 years of marriage
My friend and I split up
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come apart | | Example: the group broke up
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break violently or noisily; smash | | source: wordnet30
| 5 |
make a break in | | Example: We interrupt the program for the following messages
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cause to go into a solution | | Example: The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water
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suffer a nervous breakdown | | source: wordnet30
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take apart into its constituent pieces | | source: wordnet30
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destroy the completeness of a set of related items | | Example: The book dealer would not break the set
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set or keep apart | | Example: sever a relationship
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attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example | | Example: Pick open the ice
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release ice | | Example: The icebergs and glaciers calve
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close at the end of a session | | Example: The court adjourned
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bring the association of to an end or cause to break up | | Example: The decree officially dissolved the marriage
the judge dissolved the tobacco company
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come to an end | | Example: Their marriage dissolved
The tobacco monopoly broke up
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break or cause to break into pieces | | Example: The plate fragmented
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cause to separate | | Example: break up kidney stones
disperse particles
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separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts | | source: wordnet30
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laugh unrestrainedly | | source: wordnet30
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