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breakup
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of BREAKUP
the act or process of a whole separating into two or more parts or pieces <the breakup of the Soviet Union and the collapse of communism pretty much signaled the end of the Cold War>
Synonyms bifurcation, breakup, cleavage, dissolution, disunion, division, fractionalization, fractionation, partition, schism, scission, split, sundering
Related Words breach, rupture; divorce, severance; decomposition, disassembly, dismemberment, segmentation, subdivision; atomization, dichotomization, polarization; diffusion, dispersal, dispersion, scattering; administration, apportionment, distribution; isolation, seclusion, segregation, sequestration
Near Antonyms assemblage, association; attachment, conjunction, connection, link, linkage, linkup; aggregation, combination, consolidation, fusion
Antonyms unification, union
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