verb
- Take apart into its constituent pieces.
- synonyms: disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up
- Break violently or noisily; smash;.
- Break up or separate.
- usage: "The country is disunifying"; "Yugoslavia broke apart after 1989"
- synonyms: disunify
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