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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: take apart into its constituent pieces [syn: disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up, break apart] [ant: assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together]

Merriam Webster's

verb Date: 1903 transitive verb to take apart <disassemble a watch> intransitive verb 1. to come apart <the frame disassembles into sections> 2. disperse, scatter <the crowd began to disassemble> • disassembly noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. take (a machine etc.) to pieces. Derivatives: disassembly n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(disassembles, disassembling, disassembled) To disassemble something means to take it to pieces. (FORMAL) You'll have to disassemble the drill. = dismantle VERB: V n

Moby Thesaurus

atomize, break to pieces, cleave, demolish, disintegrate, dismantle, dismember, dismount, fragment, make mincemeat of, pick to pieces, pull in pieces, pull to pieces, pulverize, reduce to rubble, rend, shatter, smash, split, sunder, take apart, take down, tear apart, tear down, tear to pieces, tear to shreds, tear to tatters, total, unbuild, undo, unmake, wrack up, wreck