| Verb | 1. | take apart - take apart into its constituent pieces |
| 2. | take apart - divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war" | |
| 3. | take apart - make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features; "analyze a specimen"; "analyze a sentence"; "analyze a chemical compound" |