break apart

Verb

• break up or separate
  • The country is disunifying
    
  • Yugoslavia broke apart after 1989
    

• break violently or noisily; smash;

• take apart into its constituent pieces

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  disunify , crash , break up , disassemble , dismantle , take apart
• Antonyms: 
  unify , unite , merge , assemble , piece , put together , set up , tack , tack together