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English verb: take apart | |||
| 1. | take apart (creation) take apart into its constituent pieces | ||
| Synonyms | break apart, break up, disassemble, dismantle | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | destroy, destruct | ||
| Antonyms | assemble, put together, tack together, piece, set up, tack | ||
| 2. | take apart (contact) divide into pieces | ||
| Samples | Our department was dismembered when our funding dried up. The Empire was discerped after the war. | ||
| Synonyms | discerp, dismember | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | divide, part, separate | ||
| 3. | take apart (cognition) make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features | ||
| Samples | Analyze a specimen. Analyze a sentence. Analyze a chemical compound. | ||
| Synonyms | analyse, analyze, break down, dissect | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | botanise, botanize, parse | ||
| Antonyms | synthesise, synthesize | ||
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