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English to English verb
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to cause to separate and go in different directions |
• She waved her hand and scattered the crowds
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| 2 |
discontinue an association or relation; go different ways |
• 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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• the group broke up
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| 4 |
break violently or noisily; smash | source: wordnet30 Example:
• We interrupt the program for the following messages
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| 6 |
cause to go into a solution |
• The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water
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| 7 |
suffer a nervous breakdown | source: wordnet30
| 8 |
take apart into its constituent pieces | source: wordnet30
| 9 |
destroy the completeness of a set of related items |
• The book dealer would not break the set
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• sever a relationship
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| 11 |
attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example |
• Pick open the ice
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• The icebergs and glaciers calve
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| 13 |
close at the end of a session |
• The court adjourned
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| 14 |
bring the association of to an end or cause to break up |
• The decree officially dissolved the marriage
• the judge dissolved the tobacco company
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• Their marriage dissolved
• The tobacco monopoly broke up
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break or cause to break into pieces |
• The plate fragmented
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• break up kidney stones
• disperse particles
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separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts | source: wordnet30 source: wordnet30
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