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WordNet 3.0

  1. v. break up or separate
  2. v. take apart into its constituent pieces
  3. v. break violently or noisily; smash.

Examples

  • “My mother glances at the stage and utters one word, besporyadok, disorder, which is what she says when I leave my uniform dress hanging on a chair, or when radiators in our apartment turn off on New Year’s Eve without warning, or when there is no janitor in sight to break apart a slope of ice in front of the entrance to our building.”

    Simon & Schuster: A Mountain of Crumbs

  • “He had never tried to break apart anything as large as these rocks by magic, and now didn't seem a good moment to try-what if the whole tunnel caved in?”

    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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hypernyms (9)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. break
  1. separate
  1. split up
  1. split
  1. part
  1. breakup
  1. destroy
  1. destruct
  1. disintegrate

reverse dictionary (22)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. burst
  2. bust
  3. rend
  4. split
  1. fall
  2. disaggregate
  3. modulus of rupture
  4. toburst
  1. tocleave
  2. totear
  3. unstuck
  4. reave
  1. rickety
  2. sunder
  3. snap
  4. fall apart
  1. crack
  2. crumb
  3. breakaway
  4. loment
  1. crumble
  2. sever

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