take apart
Verb
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Verb
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see take, apart
- To dismantle something into its component pieces.
- I carefully took the clock mechanism apart to clean it.
- To move someone away from others to be able to talk to, or give them something in private.
- 1868, by Charles Dickens. Barnaby Rudge.
- ....then went close up to him, and took him apart into a dark corner. "I say," he began, with a thoughtful brow, "haven't I seen you before
- 1868, by Charles Dickens. Barnaby Rudge.
- To dismantle something into its component pieces.
- (informal) To soundly defeat someone, or a team.
- Synonyms: tear apart
- to criticise someone
- 2007, by Frank Luntz. Words That Work. p.150
- For nearly an hour, I took them apart for failing to understand, connect with, empathize with, and listen to the American people.?
- 2007, by Frank Luntz. Words That Work. p.150
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