breakup

Plural: breakups

Noun

• The disintegration or dispersal of something.
• the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations)
• coming apart
• The act of breaking up; disintegration or division.
• The termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship.
• A loss of emotional control; a breakdown.
• The time of year during which winter ice covering bodies of water disintegrates; more generally, spring.

Examples

• The breakup of his beautiful seven-letter word by a single ’S’ was heartbreaking.

Synonyms

detachment, dissolution, separation, falling out, rupture, split, split-up

Antonyms

freeze-up

Related Words

breakdown, breakoff