Definition: laugh unrestrainedly
Similar words: laugh, express joy, express mirth
Definition: produce laughter
Synonyms: decompose, break down, break up
Definition: separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
Similar words: separate
Definition: divide into components or constituents
Usage: Separate the wheat from the chaff
Synonyms: disperse, break up, scatter
Definition: cause to separate
Usage: break up kidney stones; disperse particles
Similar words: change integrity
Definition: change in physical make-up
Synonyms: fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize, break up
Definition: break or cause to break into pieces
Usage: The plate fragmented
Similar words: separate, split up, come apart, break, fall apart
Definition: become separated into pieces or fragments
Usage: The figurine broke; The freshly baked loaf fell apart
Definition: come to an end
Usage: Their marriage dissolved; The tobacco monopoly broke up
Definition: bring to an end or halt
Usage: She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime; The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I
Definition: bring the association of to an end or cause to break up
Usage: The decree officially dissolved the marriage; the judge dissolved the tobacco company
Definition: bring to an end or halt
Usage: She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime; The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I
Synonyms: break up, adjourn, recess
Definition: close at the end of a session
Usage: The court adjourned
Similar words: cease, stop, terminate, finish, end
Definition: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
Usage: the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed; Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other; My property ends by the bushes; The symphony ends in a pianissimo
Synonyms: break up, resolve, dissolve
Definition: cause to go into a solution
Usage: The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water
Similar words: change integrity
Definition: change in physical make-up
Synonyms: interrupt, break up, disrupt, cut off
Definition: make a break in
Usage: We interrupt the program for the following messages
Similar words: break, break off, stop, discontinue
Definition: prevent completion
Usage: stop the project; break off the negotiations
Definition: release ice
Usage: The icebergs and glaciers calve
Similar words: divide, separate, part
Definition: come apart
Usage: The two pieces that we had glued separated
Definition: attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
Usage: Pick open the ice
Similar words: pierce
Definition: cut or make a way through
Usage: the knife cut through the flesh; The path pierced the jungle; Light pierced through the forest
Definition: set or keep apart
Usage: sever a relationship
Similar words: disunite, divide, part, separate
Definition: force, take, or pull apart
Usage: He separated the fighting children; Moses parted the Red Sea
Synonyms: crash, break apart, break up
Definition: break violently or noisily; smash;
Similar words: disintegrate
Definition: break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity
Usage: The material disintegrated; the group disintegrated after the leader died
Definition: destroy the completeness of a set of related items
Usage: The book dealer would not break the set
Similar words: alter, change, modify
Definition: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
Usage: The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city; The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue
Synonyms: break apart, break up, disassemble, dismantle, take apart
Definition: take apart into its constituent pieces
Similar words: destroy, destruct
Definition: do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of
Usage: The fire destroyed the house
Synonyms: break up, collapse, crack, crack up, crock up
Definition: suffer a nervous breakdown
Similar words: have, get, suffer, sustain
Definition: undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
Usage: She suffered a fracture in the accident; He had an insulin shock after eating three candy bars; She got a bruise on her leg; He got his arm broken in the scuffle
Synonyms: break up
Definition: come apart
Usage: the group broke up
Similar words: part, split, separate
Definition: go one's own way; move apart
Usage: The friends separated after the party
Synonyms: scatter, dispel, disperse, dissipate, break up
Definition: to cause to separate and go in different directions
Usage: She waved her hand and scattered the crowds