break apart

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verb

1. take apart into its constituent pieces
• Syn:
disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up
• Ant:
assemble (for: disassemble)
• Derivationally related forms:
dismantlement (for: dismantle), dismantling (for: dismantle)
• Hypernyms:
destroy, destruct
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. break violently or noisily;
smash
• Syn:
crash, break up
• Hypernyms:
disintegrate
• Verb Group:
crash
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
3. break up or separate
- The country is disunifying
- Yugoslavia broke apart after 1989
• Syn:
disunify
• Ant:
unify (for: disunify)
• Hypernyms:
separate, part, split up, split, break, break up
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s