breaking off

His heart is set on our marriage—there will be great difficulty, I fear, in reconciling him to the breaking-off of the engagement.

From the first he had blamed himself for the breaking-off of her engagement with Derek.

This breaking-off in speech was something quite new in Felix.

But breaking-off this parley would mean that he had burnt his boats.

But try breaking-off with love when you want it most, when its fairest, most devilishly alive.