Noun taking apart has 1 sense
- dismemberment, taking apart - the removal of limbs; being cut to pieces
--1 is a kind of mutilation; torture, torturing
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Verb take apart has 3 senses
- disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up, break apart - take apart into its constituent pieces
--1 is one way to destroy, destruct
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- dismember, take apart, discerp - divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war"
--2 is one way to separate, divide, part
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- analyze, analyse, break down, dissect, take apart - make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features; "analyze a specimen"; "analyze a sentence"; "analyze a chemical compound"
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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