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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

... 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

... On Terra, Conn had told his friends that his father was a prospector, leaving them to interpret that as one who searched, say, for uranium. Rodney Maxwell found quite a bit of uranium, but he got it by taking apart ...
— The Cosmic Computer • Henry Beam Piper

... do it in a jiffy, because, you see, it's fixed for taking apart," the inventor of the party ...
— The Boy Scouts of the Flying Squadron • Robert Shaler

... 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 to waste time ...
— The Village Watch-Tower • (AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas Wiggin



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