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View synonyms for take apart

take apart

verb

  1. to separate (something) into component parts
  2. to criticize or punish severely

    the reviewers took the new play apart

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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I was really into fashion and had this idea to rework vintage or take apart something old and make it new.

After all, everybody now knows that Israel is capable of such an operation and can therefore take steps to prevent another one in future - taking apart devices and checking them for explosives, for instance.

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To Voss, taking apart engines and figuring out the problem is like solving complicated math equations — both bring her joy.

This was a different golf course to the one they took apart in practice, an altogether different beast with the wind and the rain in play.

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Authorities also said they believe the statue is no longer intact, and that it has been taken apart by the burglars and would need to be fully replaced.

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