Break up
Break up verb - Take apart into its constituent pieces.
Destruct
Destruct verb - Do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of.
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- She needs to break up the happy couple so Bob can have Alice, but unlike most Romantic False Leads, Charlie has no built-in Self-Destruct Mechanism that would take him out of the story.
Source: Derailing Love Interests
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