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Definition of Break apart

1. Verb. Take apart into its constituent pieces.

2. Verb. Break violently or noisily; smash. "The glass tubes break apart"

3. Verb. Break up or separate. ; "Yugoslavia broke apart after 1989"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Break Apart

break-axe break-building break-bulk break-circuit break-dance break-even break-even point break-even points break-evens break-in

break-ins break-up break a law break a leg break a sweat break apart (current term) break away break bad break bread break bulk

break camp break cover break dance break dancing break down break even break free break ground break in break into

Literary usage of Break apart

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"... break apart: see de- bruine, and cf. bree;e*.] 1. Fragments; rubbish; ruins. Your grace is now disposing of the '/- >>, •/. ..."

2. Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon by Oregon Supreme Court (1892)
"... an unfrequent occurrence for trains to break apart on account of a draw-bar pulling out; that "sometimes they run for a month and do not break apart, ..."

3. The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1915)
"... sex chromosomes must remain intact as often as they break apart, and even when they break apart this takes place, as a rule, at only one place. ..."

4. The Cell in Development and Inheritance by Edmund Beecher Wilson (1911)
"Passing to the equator of the spindle, the V- and Y-forms break apart at the apex, while the X-forms separate into the two branches of the X, ..."

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