busts up
Smashes into pieces
Busts up means to break apart or cause to break apart, often violently or completely.
A fight busts up a party.
Laughter busts someone up—they fall apart with amusement.
A couple that busts up splits apart.
Police bust up a drug ring by dismantling it.
The phrase emphasizes forceful disruption or dissolution.
- break upEnd a relationship
- tears apartForcibly pulls into pieces
- interveneCome between opposing sides
- shatterFragment violently, suddenly
- falls to piecesBreaks into fragments
fracture · separation · estrangement · comes between · falling out · split · crush · demolish · dismantle · ruin · wreck · alienation · divorce · smash · quarrel · disbandment · mediate · disagreement