take apart

The best-funded, former eBay chief Meg Whitman, appears to be the kind of amateur who the old pro could take apart quickly.

The only parts of a rifle that an enlisted man is permitted to take apart are the bolt mechanism and the magazine mechanism.

The early masters' works, which are badly drawn and beautifully colored, I have to take apart—and it is unsatisfying.

If not, sometime take apart a discarded nest—even the simplest in structure—and try to put it together again.

Take apart the main and secondary valves and clean thoroughly, seeing that all parts are in good working order.

Those of the boxes which you do not use whole you should take apart carefully (see Withdrawing Nails).