break apart
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
take apart into its constituent pieces
Types & categories
- destroy hypernym
Related & opposite
- assemble antonym
- dismantling derivation
Sense 2 verb
break violently or noisily; smash;
Types & categories
- disintegrate hypernym
Related & opposite
- crash verb group
Sense 3 verb
break up or separate
The country is disunifying
Types & categories
- part hypernym
Related & opposite
- unify antonym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | assemble |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dismantling |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | destroy |
| 2 | verb group | Related & opposite | crash |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | disintegrate |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | unify |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | part |