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BREAKUP

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Dictionary entry overview: What does breakup mean?

• BREAKUP (noun)
The noun BREAKUP has 2 senses:

1. the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations)
2. coming apart

Familiarity information: BREAKUP used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• BREAKUP (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

breakup; dissolution

Hypernyms ("breakup" is a kind of...):

conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "breakup"):

splitsville (separation or breakup or divorce)

annulment; invalidation ((law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc))

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Coming apart

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

breakup; separation; detachment

Hypernyms ("breakup" is a kind of...):

alteration; change; modification (an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "breakup"):

breach; break; falling out; rift; rupture; severance (a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions))

break (the occurrence of breaking)

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