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break apart
Overview of verb break-apart
The verb break apart has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up, break apart -- (take apart into its constituent pieces)
2. crash, break up, break apart -- (break violently or noisily; smash;)
3. disunify, break apart -- (break up or separate; "The country is disunifying"; "Yugoslavia broke apart after 1989")
Antonyms of verb break-apart
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb break-apart
3 senses of break apart
Sense 1
disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up, break apart
=> destroy, destruct
=> unmake, undo
Sense 2
crash, break up, break apart
=> disintegrate
=> change integrity
=> change
Sense 3
disunify, break apart
=> separate, part, split up, split, break, break up
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb break-apart
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb break-apart
3 senses of break apart
Sense 1
disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up, break apart
=> destroy, destruct
Sense 2
crash, break up, break apart
=> disintegrate
Sense 3
disunify, break apart
=> separate, part, split up, split, break, break up
'Cause To' of verb break-apart
Derived Forms of verb break-apart
Domain of verb break-apart
Domain Terms of verb break-apart
Familiarity of verb break-apart
break apart used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Sample Sentences of verb break-apart
3 senses of break apart
Sense 1
disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up, break apart
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
crash, break up, break apart
*> Something ----s
*> Something is ----ing PP
Sense 3
disunify, break apart
*> Something ----s
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb break-apart
3 senses of break apart
Sense 1
disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up, break apart
> destroy, destruct
=> kill
=> eliminate, get rid of, do away with
=> self-destruct, self-destroy
=> destruct
=> end
=> fracture
=> wipe out, sweep away
=> interdict
=> demolish, pulverize, pulverise
=> disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up, break apart
=> level, raze, rase, dismantle, tear down, take down, pull down
=> uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out, exterminate
=> dilapidate
=> demyelinate
Sense 2
crash, break up, break apart
> disintegrate
=> powderize, powderise, powder, pulverize, pulverise
=> powderize, pulverize, pulverise, powderise
=> run, unravel
=> crumble, fall apart
=> digest
=> dissolve
=> crash, break up, break apart
Sense 3
disunify, break apart
> separate, part, split up, split, break, break up
=> give the axe, give the bounce, give the gate
=> disunify, break apart
=> disassociate, dissociate, divorce, disunite, disjoint
=> break with
=> divorce, split up
=> secede, splinter, break away
=> break, break away
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb break-apart
Sense 1
disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up, break apart
=> destroy, destruct
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Sense 2
crash, break up, break apart
=> disintegrate
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Sense 3
disunify, break apart
=> separate, part, split up, split, break, break up
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