break-up

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as inestrangement

Word Origin & History

Old English brecan "to break, shatter, burst; injure, violate, destroy, curtail; break into, rush into; burst forth, spring out; subdue, tame" (class IV strong verb; past tense bræc, past participle brocen), from Proto-Germanic *brekan (cf. Old Frisian breka, Dutch breken, Old High German brehhan, German brechen, Gothic brikan), from PIE root *bhreg- "to break" (see fraction). Most modern senses were in Old English. In reference to the heart from early 13c. Meaning "to disclose" is from early 13c.

Break bread "share food" (with) is from late 14c. Break the ice ...

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Example Sentences for break-up

This was Anaxibius, to whom the break-up of the army was a blessing.

At length the break-up came, much as it always comes in that country.

I sent you, and that they may not savour of that break-up which is threatening me.

"Your break-up is fairly complete," he said at last, coldly.

There are deeper reasons for urging a break-up of herd-politics.

It was all part of our ...

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noun disagreement, dissolution

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estrangement

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