breakup

Meaning

1. The act of breaking up; disintegration or division.
2. The termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship.
3. A loss of emotional control; a breakdown.
4. The time of year during which winter ice covering bodies of water disintegrates; more generally, spring.

Synonyms

disintegration

breakdown

dissolution

separation

decay

break

detachment

fission

decomposition

dissipation

dilapidation

dilution

disaggregation

disband

disbandment

discrete

dismissal

disperse

dispersed

dispersion

disruption

divergence

divergent

dividing

division

fragmentation

gap

hasten

hole

🕳️

maceration

move

notch

nuclear fission

resolution

rot

scission

smash

solution

spallation

splitting

straggling

stray

transformation

transmutation

deconcentration

disgregation

peptization

scatter dispersion

annulment

ice break-up

atomic fission

breach

break up

break-up

closure

collapse

decentralization

dereliction

dialysis

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbɹeɪk.ʌp/

Etymology

Deverbal from break up.

Sentences

The album met with lukewarm reviews and sales , and breakup rumors swirled .