What is the meaning of break up?

verb

• To cause to separate and go in different directions.
  • usage: "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds"
  • synonyms: disperse, dissipate, dispel, scatter
• Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways.
  • usage: "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up"
  • synonyms: separate, part, split up, split, break
• Come apart.
  • usage: "the group broke up"
• Break violently or noisily; smash;.
  • synonyms: crash, break apart
• Make a break in.
  • usage: "We interrupt the program for the following messages"
  • synonyms: interrupt, disrupt, cut off
• Cause to go into a solution.
  • usage: "The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water"
  • synonyms: dissolve, resolve
• Suffer a nervous breakdown.
  • synonyms: crack up, crack, crock up, collapse
• Take apart into its constituent pieces.
  • synonyms: disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break apart
• Destroy the completeness of a set of related items.
  • usage: "The book dealer would not break the set"
  • synonyms: break
• Set or keep apart.
  • usage: "sever a relationship"
  • synonyms: sever
• Attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example.
  • usage: "Pick open the ice"
  • synonyms: pick
• Release ice.
  • usage: "The icebergs and glaciers calve"
  • synonyms: calve
• Close at the end of a session.
  • usage: "The court adjourned"
  • synonyms: adjourn, recess
• Bring the association of to an end or cause to break up.
  • usage: "The decree officially dissolved the marriage"; "the judge dissolved the tobacco company"
  • synonyms: dissolve
• Come to an end.
  • usage: "Their marriage dissolved"; "The tobacco monopoly broke up"
  • synonyms: dissolve
• Break or cause to break into pieces.
  • usage: "The plate fragmented"
  • synonyms: fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise
• Cause to separate.
  • usage: "break up kidney stones"; "disperse particles"
  • synonyms: disperse, scatter
• Separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts.
  • synonyms: decompose, break down
• Laugh unrestrainedly.
  • synonyms: crack up