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Definition of Take apart
1. Verb. Take apart into its constituent pieces.
Generic synonyms: Destroy, Destruct
Antonyms: Assemble
Derivative terms: Dismantlement, Dismantling
2. Verb. Divide into pieces. "The Empire was discerped after the war"
3. Verb. Make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features. "Analyze a chemical compound"
Specialized synonyms: Parse, Botanise, Botanize
Derivative terms: Analyser, Analyst, Analyzer, Breakdown, Dissection, Dissection
Antonyms: Synthesize
Definition of Take apart
1. Verb. to dismantle something into it's component pieces. ¹
2. Verb. to soundly defeat someone, or a team ¹
3. Verb. to criticise someone ¹
4. Verb. to move someone away from others to be able to talk to, or give them something in private. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Take Apart
Literary usage of Take apart
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Remarks on the Proposals Made to Great Britain for Opening Negotiations for by William Roscoe (1808)
"a negotiation for a maritime peace, " upon a basis suitable to the recipro- "•
cal interests of the powers who may " take apart in it. ..."
2. New Edition of the Babylonian Talmud by Michael Levi Rodkinson (1903)
"Buta advised Herod to take apart the old Temple for the purpose of building a
... One must not take apart," etc.? If you wish, you may say he saw a sign of ..."
3. A Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary by James Curtis Hepburn (1886)
"SU h 9 ^\ -J- T, Jfc, ^); tv To separate, to take away, to take from, take apart.
... tY To accidentally, to take apart, to remove. ..."
4. New Edition of the Babylonian Talmud (1903)
"Buta advised Herod to take apart the old Temple for the purpose of building a
new one. Was this not against the law, as declared above by R. ..."
5. Remarks on the Proposals Made to Great Britain for Opening Negotiations for by William Roscoe (1808)
"a negotiation for a maritime peace, " upon a basis suitable to the recipro- "•
cal interests of the powers who may " take apart in it. ..."
6. New Edition of the Babylonian Talmud by Michael Levi Rodkinson (1903)
"Buta advised Herod to take apart the old Temple for the purpose of building a
... One must not take apart," etc.? If you wish, you may say he saw a sign of ..."
7. A Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary by James Curtis Hepburn (1886)
"SU h 9 ^\ -J- T, Jfc, ^); tv To separate, to take away, to take from, take apart.
... tY To accidentally, to take apart, to remove. ..."
8. New Edition of the Babylonian Talmud (1903)
"Buta advised Herod to take apart the old Temple for the purpose of building a
new one. Was this not against the law, as declared above by R. ..."
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