break up

verbend relationship, activity

Synonyms for break up

verb end relationship, activity

Antonyms for break up

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 is c.1600, in reference to the "coldness" of encounters of strangers. Break wind first attested 1550s. To break (something) out (1890s) probably is an image from dock work, of freeing cargo before unloading it. Ironic theatrical good luck formula break a leg has parallels in German Hals- und Beinbruch "break your neck and leg," and Italian in bocca al lupo. Evidence of a highly superstitious craft (cf. Macbeth).

Example Sentences for break up

Laura promises to come over to our house in the evenin', and so we break up.

Break up and mash them with a potato-beetle, or a rolling-pin.

However, if it should break up, we can stay there all night.

Why, in my person, do you break up the consent of the whole world?

To what place did Sa̤ul go, that he might break up the church there?

Neither seemed inclined to break up the awkwardness of the pause.

The group in the lawyer's office did not break up for another hour.

The crowd began to break up, and the people went off singing.

This was at night, and we were under an order to break up next morning.

The soil will be too hard in summer for a plough and a pair of oxen to break up.

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