'break apart' definitions:

Take apart into its constituent pieces [syn: disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up, break apart] [ant: assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together]

Break violently or noisily; smash; [syn: crash, break up, break apart]

Break up or separate; "The country is disunifying"; "Yugoslavia broke apart after 1989" [syn: disunify, break apart] [ant: merge, unify, unite]