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break apart

/ break apart /

verb

verb Sense 1

break up or separate

"The country is disunifying"

"Yugoslavia broke apart after 1989"

Opposites:

unify unite merge

Type of:

separate part split up

Usage Patterns:

Somebody ----s

verb Sense 2

break violently or noisily; smash;

Type of:

disintegrate

Verb group:

crash

Usage Patterns:

Somebody ----s

Somebody ----s something to somebody

verb Sense 3

take apart into its constituent pieces

Opposites:

assemble piece put together set up tack

Type of:

destroy destruct

Derived:

dismantling dismantlement disassembly

Usage Patterns:

Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something

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