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UK
/bɹˈeɪkʌp/
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[ US /ˈbɹeɪˌkəp/ ]
[ US /ˈbɹeɪˌkəp/ ]
NOUN
- coming apart
- the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations)
How To Use breakup In A Sentence
- They demonstrate that the orogen likely developed over a Neoproterozoic failed continental rift that was linked to the breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
- Flexibility of labour was obtained through the breakup of old trade union structures.
- I speak from experience when I say that breakups hurt.
- Oh, and remember, you as the dumper cannot be the one to help the dumpee through the breakup.
- Not long after our breakup I arrived in London for a television performance, and the city cooperated soggily with my baleful mood. Living Alone and Loving It
- If there are any government-run financial rescue operations in the future, the administration says, they should be funded by the financial industry - and they shouldn't be bailouts but "breakups" that liquidate the failing firm and fire its executives. Statesman.com - Highschool
- It's a disturbing event, but Cliff needs only a couple of tokes and some sage advice from his mother - who thinks he's just upset over a breakup - to get over it.
- Damir pointed out a salient problem with the west’s 1990s policies towards the breakup of Yugoslavia … there was a lot of solipsistic, “we can live in multiethnic harmony here, so Bosnia should be a multiethnic cooperative state, too!” Matthew Yglesias » Karadzic’s Defense
- Both parties seemed to have a rather clinical view of the breakup of their marriage.
- Conventional discussion of the breakup of the boom and its underlying causes are generally inadequate.