WordNet
v. take apart into its constituent pieces [syn: disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up] [ant: assemble]
break up or separate; "The country is disunifying"; "Yugoslavia broke apart after 1989" [syn: disunify] [ant: unify]
Usage examples of "break apart".
If you were a Dreamlander I'd say you might break apart and go to pieces.
The physicists said that the solar system should keep this orbit for about four million years (plus or minus a hundred thousand, depending on the black hole's expansion rate), before the star system would break apart, and its sun and planets would eventually fall into the massive blackness.
As he tried to stand up again, three further tremendous shocks following in rapid succession so shook the ship that the physician wondered why it didn't break apart.
Nicolae caught her thought, and there in the air, as they burst from the cave, he pulled her to him and kissed her until the world spun out of control and they were forced to break apart.
The transporter chime grew as the surrounding room seemed to break apart into glowing bits of energy.
The ship would break apart on the reef by the time the men returned.
A TREMOR SHOOK the Citadel, the windows cracking, suits of armor falling from their wall niches to break apart on the floor in noisy crashes.
He sat there, watching them circle, manoeuvre, come in with a storm of blows, close and strive locked together, or break apart for a fresh attack: he watched them under the clear light of a high, veiled sky, fighting there to the roar of the opposing sides - they might have been in the arena of a small provincial Roman town - and he too was as tense as any as he urged his old friend and shipmate to go in and win, shouting for him in a voice he could barely hear for the huge din on either side.