Sekirov Dictionary

pull apart

verb 5
pull-apart noun 2
forms 4

verb5

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To become separated as a result of pulling.
- A frayed rope will pull apart under tension.
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To separate (people or animals that are fighting).
- The drunken brawlers had to be pulled apart.
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(figurative) To investigate rigorously the basis of (an idea or theory).
- Starting with a couple of inconsistencies, the detective began to pull apart his alibi.
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(figurative) To criticise harshly and in detail.
- The professor pulled her essay apart in front of the entire class.
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To disassemble, dismantle, take apart (a machine or other mechanical device).
- When his watch stopped working, he pulled it apart to work out what was wrong with it.

pull-apart noun2

A kind of sweet or savory food made with baked dough.
A structural basin where two overlapping faults or a fault bend create(s) an area of crustal extension undergoing tension, which causes the basin to sink down.

forms

pulled apart · pulling apart · pulls apart · pull-aparts

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