VERB
- break violently or noisily; smash
- take apart into its constituent pieces
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break up or separate
Yugoslavia broke apart after 1989
The country is disunifying
How To Use break apart In A Sentence
- Soft plaque is more likely to break apart from the walls and enter the bloodstream.
- In an important difference, bacteria killed this way did not lyse, or break apart, as they did under the influence of membrane-disrupting drugs. SUPERBUG
- In the warmth of the room it began to thaw and to break apart in clinging chunks. Chapter VI
- Engineers say they only have one shot at parbuckling the ship - and any error during the days-long process could see the ship break apart,.
- Plants then synthesize antimicrobial substances, including the protein chitinase, which degrades the cell walls of fungi, and enzymes called nucleases, which break apart the ribonucleic acid of viruses.
- Sometimes these are at cross-purposes because if the segments break apart too soon, penetration will be shallow and dispersion wide.
- While the chicken is cooking break apart the head of lettuce into bite sized pieces.
- The photons can break apart, or ionize, molecules and atoms of the atmosphere into protons and electrons, producing plasma.
- The area that separates the continental and oceanic crust is called a rifted continental margin; this forms when continents start to break apart and new oceans are formed in between. Energy News - Energy Technology - Energy Business - Energy and the Environment
- The tiles break apart to reveal red, raw meatlike excrescences that threaten to overwhelm the entire image.