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Taking apart   /tˈeɪkɪŋ əpˈɑrt/   Listen
Taking apart

noun
1.
The removal of limbs; being cut to pieces.  Synonym: dismemberment.





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"Taking apart" Quotes from Famous Books



... devices. It never occurred to her that he was in any way remarkable. If he were difficult to understand, it reflected more upon his eccentricity than upon her density. What was a woman to do with a boy of twelve who, when she urged him to drop the old guitar he was taking apart and hurry off to school, cried, "Oh, mother! when there is so much to learn in this world, it is wicked, wicked, ...
— A Village Stradivarius • Kate Douglas Wiggin


Words linked to "Taking apart" :   mutilation, torture, torturing


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