break up
(END RELATIONSHIP) — phrasal verb with break /breɪk/ verb (broke, broken)Definition
B1 If a marriage breaks up or two people in a romantic relationship break up, their marriage or their relationship ends: Jenny and George have broken up. She's just broken up with her boyfriend.Ending relationships and divorce
(Definition of break up (END RELATIONSHIP) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a parting of the ways idiom
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- chuck verb (END)
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- forsake verb (LEAVE)
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- separation noun
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