| 单词 | break up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto break up to break up 1. transitive. [ < 1.] To break into many parts; to disintegrate. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > separate into constituents [verb (transitive)] resolvea1398 analyse1606 untwist1611 refract1646 disband1695 decomposea1751 decompounda1751 to break up1751 disintegrate1794 to break down1859 dissociate1869 factor1958 1751 W. Beawes Lex Mercatoria Rediviva 52 If a Ship be broken up, or taken in Pieces..and afterwards..be rebuilt..she is now another, and not the same Ship. 1864 Derby Mercury 7 Dec. The steel pieces were broken up, and the iron ones were beaten up into bars. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues III. 133 He cannot understand how an absolute unity..can be broken up into a number of individuals. 1876 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches I. i. ii. 54 Heraclius succeeded in..breaking up the Persian power. 2. To rend or tear: see 2a. 3. To cut up, carve: see 2b. 4. [ < 2f.] To dissolve, disband, put an end to, give up; as in to break a regiment, gang, parliament (obsolete); to break up a house, household, housekeeping, school, an assembly. Colloquial phrase break it up: (a) imperative disperse; stop (a fight); (b) U.S. (see quot. 1946). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > a company or assembly dissever1393 parta1400 skaila1400 to break up1483 disassemble1550 dismiss1582 disband1591 unflock1611 revoke1675 break1685 bust1855 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > separate or isolate [verb (transitive)] > dissolve or break up to part companya1400 to break up1483 disband1591 break1685 society > armed hostility > peace > pacification > make peace [verb (intransitive)] > part combatants to part a fight (also fray)1533 stickle1693 break it up1936 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > applause > applaud [phrase] > bring down the house break it up1946 1483 Act 1 Rich. III ii Many worshipful Men..were compelled by Necessity to break up their Housholds. c1500 Song in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 117 To brek upe the scole. 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 12 Glad to heare the Devill is breaking up house in England, and removing somewhether else. 1721 London Gaz. No. 5977/2 They..broke up their Assembly. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. x. 159 My uncle..had..broken up his housekeeping. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 67 We fairly gave way and broke up the company. 1936 S. Kingsley Dead End ii. 113 Break it up!.. Come on, break it up!..go on home! Go on, break it up! 1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues 371 Break it up, bring the house down. 1947 ‘N. Blake’ Minute for Murder vii. 149 A policeman..forced his way..through the crowd, shouting ‘..Stand aside! Break it up!’ 1959 Encounter Aug. 28/2 If someone had stepped in and said, ‘break it up’,..all would have gone well. 5. absol. and intransitive < 4 spec. of a school. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > separate [verb (intransitive)] dealc1000 to make separationc1450 to break up1535 diverta1575 disjoina1642 unherd1661 separate1690 to cut (also slip) the painter1699 enisle1852 segregate1863 bust1880 isolate1988 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter or be dispersed [verb (intransitive)] > break up (of an assembly) sunderc1225 dissolvea1535 to break up1535 disband1598 dissemblea1626 dismiss1809 separate1885 to let out1888 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xxxvii. F So Sennacherib the kinge of the Assirians brake vp, and dwelt at Niniue. c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1875) I. 52 The twentith daie of Julie, the Convocation brooke upp at Poules. 1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. 14 b Euery one bethinking how he might priuly breake vp, and steale home to resist the Enemy. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion v. 77 Then vp the Session brake. 1707 C. Mordaunt Let. 5 May in E. Hamilton Mordaunts (1965) iv. 74 Wee break up the Saturday after next and I desiare if you be in town to send for me. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 364 When you break up next, my Dear, said he, if you're a good Girl, you shall make your new Aunt a Visit. a1855 C. Brontë in Cornhill Mag. (1860) Apr. 495 I wrote..to the friends of my pupils, notifying the day when we break up. 1882 Boy's Own P. IV. 283 A few days later the school broke up for the summer holidays. 6. transitive. [ < 5.] To open up (ground) with the spade or plough. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > plough (land) [verb (transitive)] eareOE till1377 plough1423 break1499 sheugh1513 ayrec1540 to break up1557 furrow1576 spit1648 whelm1652 manage1655 hack1732 thorough1733 to plough in1764 rout1836 1557 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandrie sig. B.iiii In January husbandes..will breake vp their lay. 1611 Bible (King James) Jer. iv. 3 Breake vp your fallow ground. View more context for this quotation 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 95 The roads, having been broke up by the heavy rains in the spring, were..rough. 1787 G. Winter New Syst. Husbandry 129 The beginning of October is the best season for breaking-up old pasture-lands. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > eruption > erupt [verb (intransitive)] to break out1535 burst1552 to break up1561 to come out1565 erump1657 1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 1 [It] maketh the skin stronge, harde, and also cleane, that it break vp no more. 8. [ < 8b.] Of frost, (formerly) of an epidemic: To give way, cease. Of any kind of weather: to change. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > end or extremity > come to an end [verb (intransitive)] finea1300 cease1382 fall1523 to break up1544 to blow off1633 subside1654 peter1846 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [verb (intransitive)] > change to break up1544 break1887 1544 Late Exped. Scotl. sig. C.iiv And for asmoch as the myst yet contynued and dyd not breake..we concluded if the wether did not breake vp, to haue encamped our selues vpon the same ground. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. ix. sig. T3 The weather breaking vp, they were brought to the maine lande of Pontus. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §383 In Barbary, the Plagues break up in the Summer Moneths. 1801 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) IV. 355 Before the frost broke up at Cronstadt. 9. [ < 12c.] To fail in physical organization. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > open [verb (transitive)] > open by freeing of obstruction > by barriers or chains breaka1000 to break up1523 unchain1616 unbarricade1623 disbar1636 unbank1842 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxxii. 501 With great axes they brake vp the dore. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Breake vp a wryt or letter, resigno. 1578 T. Tymme tr. J. Calvin Comm. Genesis 199 The Lord brake up the floodgates of the waters. 1646 Burd. Issach. in Phenix (1708) II. 309 If any should offer violence to break up the Doors. 1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 278 When we had broken it [sc. the letter] up, and had read the Contents thereof. View more context for this quotation 1700 R. Blackmore Paraphr. Job xxiv. 108 He in the Dark Breaks Houses up, on which he set his mark. 1712 H. Prideaux Direct. Church-wardens (ed. 4) 87 If any Person doth in the Night-time break up the Church. 1827 T. Carlyle tr. J. P. F. Richter in German Romance III. 223 Fixlein..broke up the presentation as his own. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > become open [verb (intransitive)] > spring or burst open flusha1300 unspringa1400 leap1477 to break up1528 burst1590 fly1633 1528 W. Tyndale Doctr. Treat. (1848) 203 Let the judges..not break up into the consciences of men. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Matt. vi. 20 Where theues nether breake vp nor yet steale. 12. To begin or commence operations upon. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > set to work upon or begin to deal with to set about ——a1300 to set upon ——1555 fall1589 to deal on, upon1597 to break up1688 begin1808 to set up1857 1688 London Gaz. No. 2344/4 There was 500 Acres of Fresh Grass..broak up on May Day. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 60. ¶3 As a Mine not broken up. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or make revelations [verb (intransitive)] > be disclosed or revealed to come to (also in, on) (the) lightOE sutelea1000 kitheOE unfoldc1350 disclosea1513 burst1542 to break up1584 to take vent1611 vent1622 bleed1645 emerge1664 to get (also have) vent1668 to get or take wind1668 to stand (appear) confessed1708 eclat1736 perspire1748 transpire1748 to come out1751 develop1805 unroll1807 spunk1808 effloresce1834 to come to the front1871 to show up1879 out1894 evolve1920 to come or crawl out of the woodwork1964 1584 J. Carmichael Let. in D. Laing Misc. Wodrow Soc. (1844) 418 The murder of the Prince of Orange first brack up and came by speciall post. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > be a flowering plant [verb (intransitive)] > flower or blossom blossomc890 blowc1000 flower13.. blooma1325 breakc1325 lancec1330 flourishc1386 to break up?a1500 knopa1584 effloresce1775 outbreak1870 a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Lion & Mouse l. 1339 in Poems (1981) 54 The blossummis blythe brak vp on bank and bra. 15. transitive. To disconcert, upset, disturb; to excite; spec. (originally U.S.) to convulse with laughter. Also intransitive. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > be in state of nervous excitement [verb (intransitive)] to take ona1450 seethe1609 trepidate1623 to take on oneself1632 flutter1668 pother1715 to be upon the nettle (also in a nettle)1723 to be nerve all over1778 to be all nerve1819 to be (all) on wires1824 to break up1825 to carry on1828 to be on (occasionally upon or on the) edge1872 faff1874 to have kittens1900 flap1910 to be in, get in(to), a flap1939 to go sparec1942 to keep (also blow, lose) one's cool1964 faffle1965 to get one's knickers in a twist1971 to have a canary1971 to wet one's pants1979 tweak1981 the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > cause nervous excitement or agitate [verb (transitive)] to carry away?1529 agitate1591 fermentate1599 tumultuate1616 alarm1620 overwork1645 uncalm1650 flutter1664 pother1692 to set afloata1713 fluctuate1788 fuss1816 tumult1819 to break up1825 rile1857 to steam up1860 to shake up1884 the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > laugh in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > laugh convulsively or immoderately chuckle1598 to split (also break, burst, etc.) one's sides1598 to die with, or of laughing1609 to hold one's sides1609 to laugh till (also until) one cries1611 split1688 to burst one's sides1712 shake1729 to shake one's sides1736 to laugh oneself sick (also silly)1773 roll1819 to laugh one's head off1871 to break up1895 to fall about1918 pee1946 the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > cause laughter [verb (transitive)] > convulse with laughter shake?1606 convulse1751 to break up1895 slay1927 kill1938 fracture1946 1825 J. Constable Let. 23 Oct. (1964) II. 404 She says, her sister is going to be married—& that she fears it will break her up. 1860 O. W. Holmes Professor at Breakfast-table i. 12 This episode broke me up, as the jockeys say, out of my square conversational trot; but I settled down to it again. 1895 ‘M. Twain’ in N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 61 Well, humour is the great thing, the saving thing,..so, when M. Bourget said that bright thing about our grandfathers, I broke all up. 1895 Harper's Mag. Sept. 545/2 A most pathetic stream of arguments and blasphemy, which broke Joan all up, and made her laugh as she had not laughed since she played in the Domremy pastures. 1902 L. L. Bell Hope Loring 240 What language you use!.. If you knew how it breaks me up when you use slang! 1959 H. Gardner So what else is New? 2 The remark broke up the other people in the elevator, but the diminutive culprit continued to stare defiance. 1967 New Yorker 21 Jan. 52 The number broke the place up, and Marsala invited me back to play that night. 1968 Listener 4 Jan. 27/3 The camera had only to turn to Tommy Cooper for the audience to break up with laughter. to break up < as lemmas |
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