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BREAK APART

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Break up or separate

Example:

Yugoslavia broke apart after 1989

Synonyms:

break apart; disunify

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "break apart" is one way to...):

break; break up; part; separate; split; split up (discontinue an association or relation; go different ways)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Break violently or noisily; smash

Synonyms:

break apart; break up; crash

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "break apart" is one way to...):

disintegrate (break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity)

Verb group:

crash (cause to crash)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

Take apart into its constituent pieces

Synonyms:

break apart; break up; disassemble; dismantle; take apart

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "break apart" is one way to...):

destroy; destruct (do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "break apart"):

strike (disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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