Break up
Break up verb - To cease to exist or cause to cease to exist as a group or organization.
To split
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- The Fabulous Freebirds were actually notorious for their refusal to break up - if a promoter tried to split the team up all of them would leave the promotion.
Source: Breakup Breakout - There's a folktale about how The Devil made a bargain with an old woman to break up a happy couple he had been trying to split apart for years.
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