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break apart

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break violently or noisily; smash

take apart into its constituent pieces

break up or separate

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There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot. Octavio Paz

My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course. Jodi Picoult

Have you ever felt that your heart contained so much that it must surely break apart. Cassandra Clare

I would not be surprised to see Syria break apart entirely. James G. Stavridis

The country is disunifying Source: Internet

Yugoslavia broke apart after 1989 Source: Internet

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