---

• n  the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations)
• n  coming apart

• Schmidt's online breakup boutique sells mugs that say things like BOO FRICKIN' HOO and books like How to Tell If Your Boyfriend Is the Antichrist.
• The ugly breakup between Viacom's Paramount Pictures and the studio's major moneymaker Tom Cruise sends a signal to prom kings everywhere: Get over yourselves!.
• The breakup sucked, the more so because it was no one's fault.

• dissolution
• separation
• detachment

News & Articles

---

• Funny Breakup: 'Why I'm Dumping You' List Highlights Ex's Annoying Habits (PHOTO)
  After a breakup, it can be cathartic to list all the things you won't miss about your ex. But sending the list to him or her? That takes some nerve. Apparently, that's exactly what one guy did after dumping the lady in his life.
  June 21, 2013 - The Huffington Post
• Check out a clip from the Zachary Quinto-produced comedy ‘Breakup at a Wedding’ — EXCLUSIVE VIDEO
  Pretty much everything which could go wrong at a wedding does so in the new movie Breakup at a Wedding
  June 20, 2013 - Entertainment Weekly
• Sony Downplays Third Point's Breakup Pitch
  NEW YORK (TheStreet) - Change at Sony may take time, as the company tries to revive its competitiveness in the fast-moving electronics business. Sony continues to downplay a breakup proposal that activist hedge fund investor Dan Loeb of Third Point Capital has proposed for the struggling electronics and entertainment giant. At the company's annual shareholder meeting in Tokyo, Sony CEO Kazuo ...
  June 20, 2013 - TheStreet.com

Quotes

---

• Sheryl Crow in Us Magazine
  I'd just been through a pretty painful breakup where there were kids involved, and I'd also been through breast cancer treatment,Crow, 48, tells Redbook magazine of adopting first son Wyatt in spring 2007. "After that, I felt an acute...
• Pope Benedict XVI in International Herald Tribune
  At the same time, I make an appeal to the Iraqi people, who for the past five years have borne the consequences of a war that provoked the breakup of their civil and social life,Benedict said.
• Donnie Wahlberg in Baltimore Sun
  It just so happened that the timing was good for all the guys and there were different things going on in our lives that made it work,said Wahlberg, who recently split from wife Kim. "I mean, I'm going through a breakup of my marriage. I...