break apart

Questions about break apart

What does break apart mean?

break apart means "take apart into its constituent pieces". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for break apart?

Close synonyms include disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up, crash. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is break apart a common word?

break apart is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.