break with

Verb

Meaning

end a relationship

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

separate battle eighty-six bicker jilt leave fight split cross drop row divide reject oppose quit
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Antonyms

pair back up stick by let bygones be bygones tell the truth fall in with
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Hypernyms

separate break split break-up part split up

Examples

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition. James Agee

Nietzsche's break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple. Gilles Deleuze

[The Mexican revolution] was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo. Carlos Fuentes

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged. William Robertson Smith

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness. Giacomo Casanova

To keep a new friend, never break with the old. Russian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

break wind break wind backwards break wind upwards break with past break with tradition break your back