disband - cause to break up or function; "the principal disbanded the political student organization"

divide, separate - make a division or separation

give the bounce, give the gate, give the axe - terminate a relationship abruptly; "Mary gave John the axe after she saw him with another woman"

disunify, break apart - break up or separate; "The country is disunifying"; "Yugoslavia broke apart after 1989"

disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, disunite, divorce - part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president"

break with - end a relationship; "China broke with Russia"

split up, divorce - get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage; "The couple divorced after only 6 months"

secede, splinter, break away - withdraw from an organization or communion; "After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away"

break away, break - interrupt a continued activity; "She had broken with the traditional patterns"

disband, dissolve - stop functioning or cohering as a unit; "The political wing of the party dissolved after much internal fighting"

part, split, separate - go one's own away; move apart; "The friends separated after the party"

disintegrate - break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity; "The material disintegrated"; "the group disintegrated after the leader died"

crash - cause to crash; "The terrorists crashed the car into the gate of the palace"

cut off, cut - cease, stop; "cut the noise"; "We had to cut short the conversation"

break off, discontinue, stop, break - prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negociations"

punctuate - interrupt periodically; "Her sharp questions punctuated the speaker's drone"

break - interrupt the flow of current in; "break a circuit"

put away - turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily; "She turned away from her painting"

intermit, pause, break - cease an action temporarily; "We pause for station identification"; "let's break for lunch"

butt in, chime in, chisel in, barge in, break in, cut in, put in - break into a conversation; "her husband always chimes in, even when he is not involved in the conversation"

burst in on, burst upon - spring suddenly; "He burst upon our conversation"

heckle - challenge aggressively

interject, interpose, throw in, come in, inject, put in - to insert between other elements; "She interjected clever remarks"

block, jam - interfere with or prevent the reception of signals; "Jam the Voice of America"; "block the signals emitted by this station"

stop over, stop - interrupt a trip; "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence"

take time off, take off - take time off from work; stop working temporarily

change integrity - change in physical make-up

melt, melt down, run - reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating; "melt butter"; "melt down gold"; "The wax melted in the sun"

cut - dissolve by breaking down the fat of; "soap cuts grease"

suffer, sustain, have, get - undergo (as of injuries and illnesses); "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"

destroy, destruct - do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of; "The fire destroyed the house"

alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"

break - exchange for smaller units of money; "I had to break a $100 bill just to buy the candy"

disunite, separate, part, divide - force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"

lop, sever, discerp - cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body"

pierce - cut or make a way through; "the knife cut through the flesh"; "The path pierced the jungle"; "Light pierced through the forest"

divide, part, separate - come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"

end, cease, terminate, finish, stop - have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "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"

dismiss, dissolve - declare void; "The President dissolved the parliament and called for new elections"

terminate, end - bring to an end or halt; "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 WWI"

terminate, end - bring to an end or halt; "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 WWI"

atomise, atomize - break up into small particles; "the fine powder had been atomized by air"

comminute, bray, grind, mash, crunch - reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic"

pound - break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle; "pound the roots with a heavy flat stone"

come apart, break, split up, fall apart, separate - become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"

sunder - break apart or in two, using violence

sliver, splinter - break up into splinters or slivers; "The wood splintered"

rag - break into lumps before sorting; "rag ore"

crumb - break into crumbs

brecciate - break into breccia; "brecciate rock"

crush - break into small pieces; "The car crushed the toy"

grind, grate - make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; "grate one's teeth in anger"

change integrity - change in physical make-up

backscatter - scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes

chemical science, chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions

digest - soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture

dissociate - to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms; "acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions"

crack - reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking

separate - divide into components or constituents; "Separate the wheat from the chaff"

express joy, express mirth, laugh - produce laughter