take apart   (TTS Sound)

The verb take apart has 3 senses

• disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up, break apart -- (take apart into its constituent pieces)


• dismember, take apart, discerp -- (divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war")


• 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")