break up
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.16 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Of a conversation, to cease to be understandable because of a bad connection; of a signal, to deteriorate.
Intransitive verb
Example Sentences
- "Break up the cheese and put it in the salad."
- "It broke up when it hit the ground."
- "So, subject to the salvaging of serviceable parts, all five were withdrawn for breaking up in 1936-7, and thus ended one of the shortest histories of an important locomotive class on record."
- "It was recorded that 26 wagons were either destroyed or more or less broken up."
- ""I remember his wail at the meeting, which began: 'In fifty years experience of scientific intercourse----' It quite broke the old man up.""
- "She broke up with her boyfriend last week."