Verb

• S: (v) disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up, break apart (take apart into its constituent pieces)
• S: (v) dismember, take apart, discerp (divide into pieces) "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) separate, divide, part (come apart) "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
• S: (v) subdivide (form into subdivisions) "The cells subdivided"
• S: (v) polarize, polarise (become polarized in a conflict or contrasting situation)
• S: (v) calve, break up (release ice) "The icebergs and glaciers calve"
• S: (v) chip, chip off, come off, break away, break off (break off (a piece from a whole)) "Her tooth chipped"
• S: (v) disjoin, disjoint (become separated, disconnected or disjoint)
• S: (v) detach, come off, come away (come to be detached) "His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery"
• S: (v) segregate (divide from the main body or mass and collect) "Many towns segregated into new counties"; "Experiments show clearly that genes segregate"
• S: (v) segment (divide or split up) "The cells segmented"
• S: (v) reduce (undergo meiosis) "The cells reduce"
• S: (v) segment, section (divide into segments) "segment an orange"; "segment a compound word"
• S: (v) partition, partition off (divide into parts, pieces, or sections) "The Arab peninsula was partitioned by the British"
• S: (v) dismember, take apart, discerp (divide into pieces) "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war"
• S: (v) gerrymander (divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts)
• sentence frame
• S: (v) analyze, analyse, break down, dissect, take apart (make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features) "analyze a specimen"; "analyze a sentence"; "analyze a chemical compound"