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BREAK APART
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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
