Open English Wordnet
Verbs
(v)separate, part, split up, split, break, break updiscontinue an association or relation; go different ways“The business partners broke over a tax question”,
“The couple separated after 25 years of marriage”,
“My friend and I split up” (v)dissolve, resolve, break upcause to go into a solution“The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water” (v)break, break updestroy the completeness of a set of related items“The book dealer would not break the set” (v)pick, break upattack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example“Pick open the ice” (v)dissolve, break upbring the association of to an end or cause to break up“The decree officially dissolved the marriage”,
“the judge dissolved the tobacco company” (v)dissolve, break upcome to an end (of a state)“Their marriage dissolved”,
“The tobacco monopoly broke up”