to beat someone very easily in a game or sport
to criticize a person or an idea very severely
to separate an object into pieces
I bet she could take apart an engine and put it back together in no time now, couldn't you, Leigh?
I once saw him take apart three yahoos in less time than I could pour a cup of coffee.
My watch stopped, so I took it apart.
The SOCOs were getting to the point where there wasn't much left of the Payne house to take apart.
`Nothing we can do but haul him along for Dr Bee to take apart ," said the man, whose name was Albert something.
takes apart
taking apart
took apart
taken apart
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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