- Break up
- Crumble
- Fall to bits
- Fall to pieces
- Shatter
- To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to
fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a
rock, by blows of a hammer, frost, rain, and other mechanical or
atmospheric influences.
- To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk
rapidly disintegrates.
- Break down chemically
- Break up
- Moulder
- Rot
- To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into
original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of
chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
- To become resolved or returned from existing
combinations; to undergo dissolution; to decay; to rot.
- Break up
- Demob (army)
- Disperse
- Dissolve
- Part company
- To loose the bands of; to set free; to disunite; to
scatter; to disperse; to break up the organization of; especially, to
dismiss from military service; as, to disband an army.
- To divorce.