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break apart

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up, break apartverb

    take apart into its constituent pieces

  2. crash, break up, break apartverb

    break violently or noisily; smash;

  3. disunify, break apartverb

    break up or separate

    "The country is disunifying"; "Yugoslavia broke apart after 1989"

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  1. break apart

    To break apart means to separate or cause to separate into pieces, often violently, due to pressure or damage. This term can also metaphorically refer to the splitting or dividing of groups, ideas, systems, relationships, or other forms of unity.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of break apart in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of break apart in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of break apart in a Sentence

  1. Benjamin Black:

    While our moon is moving away from Earth at a few centimeters per year, Phobos is moving toward Mars at a few centimeters per year, so it is almost inevitable that it will either crash into Mars or break apart, one of our motivations for studying Phobos was as a test case to develop ideas of what processes a moon might undergo as it moves inward toward a planet.

  2. Nikwax McLean:

    Down-specific gear like jackets and sleeping bags require machine drying, no amount of air drying will get those down clumps to break apart.

  3. Al Joersz:

    The nose would pitch up, if the pitch up became too extreme, then you could lose the airplane ... the airplane would break apart.

  4. Chieftess Queen Quet:

    The Gullah/Geechee Nation is The Gullah/Geechee Nation, it is as tightly knit as a sweet grass basket that's sewn together and as tightly knit as a cast net is sewn together -- there's strength in it and that means if you pull on it, you can't just get it to break apart.

  5. Derek Hudson:

    How do they break apart from [Hefner]? What do they do? We’ve seen some of this commentary in their statements, but still, advertisers seeing these accusations think of Hefner whenever the term Playboy is brought up. They’re synonymous. At some point, they’re really going to have to do a hard break for Hefner.


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