Wiktionary
vb. 1 (&lit pull apart English) 2 to open something by pulling on various parts of it. 3 to become separated as a result of pulling 4 to separate two people or animals that are fighting 5 to dismantle a machine or other mechanical device. 6 (context idiomatic English) to rigorously investigate the basis of an idea or theory.
Usage examples of "pull apart".
If youre making onion rings, you just pull apart each slice, but if youre making soup or spaghetti sauce or something you dice it, like this.
Front and back would pull apart, splitting the island into equal slices that slid apart on natural steerage jets, doubling the surface area.
How many times had he been pulled from a deep sleep in the early hours of the southern Libyan morning, blindfolded and required to pull apart and reassemble a Soviet-made AK-47 rifle witljin three minutes?
I folded over the last two inches of tape to make it easier to pull apart, then started on another.
Putting my arms up to go through the sleeves made the pain in my back sharp and immediate, as if the skin would pull apart if I moved too quickly.
They had died that way, struggling to pull apart over countless days and nights.
Crope severed the chains that connected them, though he did not expect them to pull apart.
He sat quietly now and tried to pull apart the visions into his past that his subconscious had belched up, like malodorous bubbles from a tar pit.
There was suddenly a rev of motors, and the two cruisers began to pull apart, opening a narrow slot of pavement.
She thought that the vests and leggings he made would hold together for a month, two at the most, then begin to pull apart.