take apart

Verb

• 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
    

• divide into pieces
  • our department was dismembered when our funding dried up
    
  • The Empire was discerped after the war
    

• take apart into its constituent pieces

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  analyze , analyse , break down , dissect , dismember , discerp , disassemble , dismantle , break up , break apart
• Antonyms: 
  synthesize , synthesise , assemble , piece , put together , set up , tack , tack together