v.
1.to cause to separate and go in different directions
2.discontinue an association or relation
3.come apart
4.break violently or noisily
5.make a break in
6.cause to go into a solution
7.suffer a nervous breakdown
8.take apart into its constituent pieces
9.destroy the completeness of a set of related items 10.set or keep apart 11.attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example 12.release ice 13.close at the end of a session 14.bring the association of to an end or cause to break up 15.come to an end 16.break or cause to break into pieces 17.cause to separate 18.separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts 19.laugh unrestrainedly
Idiom of the Day
run around like a chicken with its head cut off
to be in a state of chaos, to run around with what seems to be no purpose
I spent the morning running around like a chicken with its head cut off when I heard that my mother was in the hospital.