take sth apart
— phrasal verb with take uk/teɪk/us/teɪk/verb took, taken
to separate something into its different parts:
We took the engine apart to see what the problem was.
More examples
- He took the computer apart.
- She took apart the gun to clean it.
- They had to take the whole engine apart.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Separating and dividing
- atomize
- bifurcate
- bifurcation
- bisect
- borderline
- branch
- disestablish
- dismember
- dissociate
- dissociate yourself from sth
- disunite
- divide
- drift
- pull sth/sb apart
- quarter
- ravel
- resolve
- resolve sth into sth
- rive
- tear 1
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