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Noun taking apart has 1 sense
- dismemberment, taking apart - the removal of limbs; being cut to pieces
 
--1 is a kind of mutilation; torture, torturing
 
  
Verb take apart has 3 senses
- disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up, break apart - take apart into its constituent pieces
 
--1 is one way to destroy, destruct 
Sample sentence: 
 Somebody ----s something 
 - dismember, take apart, discerp - divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war"
 
--2 is one way to separate, divide, part 
Sample sentences: 
 Somebody ----s something 
 Something ----s something 
 - analyze, analyse, break down, dissect, 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"
 
Sample sentence: 
 Somebody ----s something 
  
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