Verb
break violently or noisily; smash
take apart into its constituent pieces
break up or separate
Source: WordNetThere 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