if a meeting or other event breaks up, or if you break it up, it ends and people leave
if a relationship breaks up, it ends
if schools break up, or if students or teachers break up, the students and teachers stop working at the end of term
if something breaks up, it breaks into smaller pieces
if the sound on a radio or mobile phone breaks up, you can no longer hear the person who is speaking on it
if two people break up, they end their relationship
to break something to make smaller pieces
to divide a large area or a period of time into smaller parts so that it does not seem so big or long
to stop a fight
Break the chocolate up into squares.
Had a rumour about the break-up already reached the old slave-driver?
He’s just broken up with his girlfriend.
His place was within the shroud of bushes to break up whatever outline he might present.
I can’t hear you, you’re breaking up.
I usually go for a walk around three o’clock to break up the afternoon.
Just after Christmas they had their first real break-up.
Privately, Stella thought that the distraught Jackie should seek counselling to help her climb out of the dark pit of sudden break up.
She's never met the girl -- an art student, apparently -- who helped break up her own family.
Sorry to break up the party, but I have to go.
The marriage broke up just a few years later.
The plane broke up in mid-air.
The police were called in to break up the rioters.
The talks didn’t break up until after midnight.
There were suggestions that her involvement had broken up the partnership.
This uneven distribution appears to be linked to the break-up of the ancient supercontinent of Gondwanaland.
We shall be leaving soon, and we wouldn't want to break up your party for you.
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