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TAKING APART
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Dictionary entry overview: What does taking apart mean?
• TAKING APART (noun)
The noun TAKING APART has 1 sense:
1. the removal of limbs; being cut to pieces
Familiarity information: TAKING APART used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The removal of limbs; being cut to pieces
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
dismemberment; taking apart
Hypernyms ("taking apart" is a kind of...):
torture; torturing (the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason)
mutilation (an injury that causes disfigurement or that deprives you of a limb or other important body part)
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