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[ noun ] the termination of a relationship
Synonyms Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)These , he said , are `` two of the principal underlying causes for family breakups leading to ADC '' . (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)Nothing in_all the preceding years had had the power to bring me closer to a knowledge of profound sorrow than the breakup of camp , the packing away of my camp uniforms , the severing of ties with the six or ten people I had grown most to love in the world . Related terms |
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[ noun ] coming apart
Synonyms Used in print (Harry H. Hull, "The Normal Forces and Their Ther...)( Some suspensions break_up before they are near to the direction of shear , and some become asymptotic to it without breakup . ) |
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