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1. Take apart into its constituent pieces
   - disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up
    
2. Break violently or noisily; smash;
   - crash, break up
    
3. Break up or separate
   "Yugoslavia broke apart after 1989";
   - disunify

Derived forms: broke apart, breaking apart, breaks apart, broken apart

Type of: break, break up, destroy, destruct, disintegrate, part, separate, spifflicate, spiflicate, split, split up