| break apart | |
verb | |
| 1. | take apart into its constituent pieces [syn: disassemble] [ant: assemble] |
| 2. | break violently or noisily; smash; [syn: crash] |
| 3. | break up or separate; "The country is disunifying"; "Yugoslavia broke apart after 1989" [syn: disunify] [ant: merge] |