- take apart
- {v. phr.} To dismantle; disassemble. * /Boys like taking radios and watches apart, but they seldom know how to put them back together again./
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
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take apart — 1) we took the machine apart Syn: dismantle, pull to pieces, pull apart, disassemble, break up; tear down, demolish, destroy, wreck 2) informal the scene was taken apart by the director See criticize … Thesaurus of popular words
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