take+apart
71take to task — verb censure severely or angrily The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger s car The deputy ragged the Prime Minister The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup • Syn: ↑call on the carpet, ↑rebuke, ↑rag, ↑trou …
72take out — Synonyms and related words: abscind, amputate, annihilate, attend, avulse, ban, bar, bob, chaperon, clear away, clip, conduct, convoy, crop, cull, cut, cut away, cut off, cut out, deracinate, dig out, dig up, discount, disentangle, dock, draw,… …
73take someone/thing apart — informal forcefully attack or defeat someone or something. → take …
74take after — Synonyms and related words: ape, appear like, approach, approximate, be like, be redolent of, bear resemblance, bring to mind, call to mind, call up, come close, come near, compare with, copy, copy after, correspond, counterfeit, emulate, evoke,… …
75ˌtake sth aˈpart — phrasal verb to separate an object into its pieces Ben was taking apart an old bicycle.[/ex] …
76pull apart — they pulled apart the suitcase looking for hidden drugs Syn: dismantle, disassemble, take/pull to pieces, take/pull to bits, take apart, strip down; demolish, destroy, break up …
77break apart — verb 1. take apart into its constituent pieces • Syn: ↑disassemble, ↑dismantle, ↑take apart, ↑break up • Ant: ↑assemble (for: ↑disassemble) …
78tear apart — Synonyms and related words: atomize, break to pieces, carp, catch at straws, cavil, cleave, cut up, defoliate, demolish, denude, disassemble, disintegrate, dismantle, dismember, draw and quarter, fault find, find fault, flay, fragment, lacerate,… …
79bring, take — Bring indicates movement toward a place identified with the speaker; it suggests to come here with. Take suggests movement away from such a place and indicates to go there with. One takes money to a supermarket and brings home groceries (and no… …
80pull something apart — DISMANTLE, disassemble, take/pull to pieces, take/pull to bits, take apart, strip down; demolish, destroy, break up. → pull …
