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Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

4 letters

PICK
The act of choosing or selecting; "your choice of colors was unfortunate"; "you can take your pick"

PART
The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group; "the function of a teacher"; "the government must do its part"; "play its role"

5 letters

SMASH
Humiliate or depress completely; "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her"

SEVER
Set or keep apart; "sever a relationship"

CRACK
The act of cracking something

CALVE
Birth; "the whales calve at this time of year"

CRASH
The act of colliding with something; "his crash through the window"; "the fullback's smash into the defensive line"

BREAK
An escape from jail; "the breakout was carefully planned"

ENDIT

SPLIT
The act of rending or ripping or splitting something; "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip"

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DISPEL
Force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings; "Drive away potential burglars"; "drive away bad thoughts"; "dispel doubts"; "The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers"

RECESS
A pause from doing something (as work); "we took a 10-minute break"; "he took time out to recuperate"

CUTOFF
A device that terminates the flow in a pipe

7 letters

CROCKUP
Suffer a nervous breakdown

CRACKUP
Laugh unrestrainedly

ADJOURN
Close at the end of a session; "The court adjourned"

RESOLVE
The trait of being resolute; "his resoluteness carried him through the battle"; "it was his unshakeable resolution to finish the work"

SCATTER
The act of scattering

DIVORCE
The legal dissolution of a marriage

DISBAND
Stop functioning or cohering as a unit; "The political wing of the party dissolved after much internal fighting"

CRUMBLE
Fall into decay or ruin; "The unoccupied house started to decay"

DISRUPT
Make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages"

SPLITUP
An increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity; "they announced a two-for-one split of the common stock"

ROUGHEN
Make rough or rougher; "roughen the surfaces so they will stick to each other"

8 letters

SEPARATE
A garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments

FRAGMENT
A broken piece of a brittle artifact

DISSOLVE
(film) a gradual transition from one scene to the next; the next scene is gradually superimposed as the former scene fades out

DISPERSE
Cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"

COLLAPSE
The act of throwing yourself down; "he landed on the bed with a great flop"

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INTERRUPT
A signal that temporarily stops the execution of a program so that another procedure can be carried out

TAKEAPART
Divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war"

DISSIPATE
Move away from each other; "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached";

BREAKDOWN
Stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"

DECOMPOSE
Lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current; "the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process"

DISMANTLE
Tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled"

FALLAPART

10 letters

SEPARATION
Sorting one thing from others; "the separation of wheat from chaff"; "the separation of mail by postal zones"

BREAKAPART
Break violently or noisily; smash;

11 letters

DISASSEMBLE
Take apart into its constituent pieces

FRAGMENTISE
Break or cause to break into pieces; "The plate fragmented"

FRAGMENTIZE
Break or cause to break into pieces; "The plate fragmented"

12 letters

DISINTEGRATE
Cause to undergo fission or lose particles

TAKETOPIECES

13 letters

FRAGMENTATION
Separating something into fine particles