take apart into its constituent pieces
divide into pieces
"our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"
"The Empire was discerped after the war"
make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
"analyze a specimen"
"analyze a sentence"
"analyze a chemical compound"
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, apart.
To dismantle something into its component pieces.