take to pieces

take something to pieces

Inf. to disassemble something. I will have to take the vacuum cleaner to pieces to find out what's wrong with it. The machine was taken to pieces again in an effort to find where the leftover part belonged.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Isabel	ee-sah-BEL (Spanish), IZ-ə-bel (English), ee-za-BEL (French), ee-zah-BEL (German)	Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, German
Tarah	TAHR-ə, TER-ə, TAR-ə	English (Modern)
Behram	-	Turkish
Rebekah	[ri'bekə]
Kirsti	KEER-stee	Finnish
Caradoc	-	Welsh