| VERB | creation | take apart, disassemble, dismantle, break up, break apart | take apart into its constituent pieces |
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| contact | take apart, dismember, discerp | divide into pieces | |
| cognition | take apart, analyze, analyse, break down, dissect | make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of |
| Meaning | take apart into its constituent pieces. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | disassemble, dismantle, break up, break apart | |
| Entailed by | cannibalize, cannibalise | Use parts of something to repair something else |
| Narrower | strike | Disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set |
| Broader | destroy, destruct | Do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of |
| Opposite | assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together | Create by putting components or members together |
| Spanish | desarmar, desarticular, desmantelar, desmontar | |
| Catalan | desarmar, desarticular, desmantellar, desmuntar | |
| Meaning | divide into pieces. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | dismember, discerp | |
| Broader | separate, divide, part | come apart |
| See also | take | get into one's hands, take physically |
| Spanish | desmembrar | |
| Catalan | desmembrar | |
| Meaning | make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | analyze, analyse, break down, dissect | |
| Narrower | botanize, botanise | Collect and study plants |
| parse | analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence) | |
| Opposite | synthesize, synthesise | combine so as to form a more complex, product |
| Spanish | analizar | |
| Catalan | analitzar | |
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