Wiktionary
vb. 1 to dismantle something into it's component pieces. 2 to soundly defeat someone, or a team 3 to criticise someone 4 to move someone away from others to be able to talk to, or give them something in private.
WordNet
v. take apart into its constituent pieces [syn: disassemble, dismantle, break up, break apart] [ant: assemble]
divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war" [syn: dismember, discerp]
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" [syn: analyze, analyse, break down, dissect] [ant: synthesize]
Usage examples of "take apart".
Monkey paws, monkey curiosity, the desire to take apart, turn inside out, smell, fondle, measure, improve, trash, discard –.
His girth required Donal Noye to take apart a mail hauberk and refit it with leather panels at the sides.
He had taken apart a dozen ships so far in his career at the Yards, and he fully expected to take apart a few dozen more, before he got too old for the work.
But if I find out, Skeeter, I will take apart whoever is responsible!
Now he taught Jews how to take apart fetal pigs and which disease would cause you to smother in your own waste products and how to tell girls from boys.
They could then simply take apart barren planets for their mineral requirements.
Should the survivor need urgent surgical attention, Conway would feel much better if Murchison had a few cadavers to take apart so that she could tell him how the living one should be put together again.
I cannot say certainly without something to take apart and put back together, but those force field memories probably manifested as solid surfaces when powered up.