All phrasal verbs
apart
/əpɑrt/6 verbsVowel-initial — links backwardsA whole becomes separate parts.
A small, consistent family: fall apart, take apart, come apart, tell apart, grow apart. Every one of them is about a unity ceasing to be one thing.
Tell apart is the odd member — the separation there is mental, distinguishing two things rather than physically splitting one.
What it does to the sound
Unstressed schwa first, stress on PART: a-PART. Ends in /rt/, which flaps when a vowel follows — tell them apart at last.
What APART means
Disintegrating
Something breaks into pieces, physically or emotionally.
Every verb that takes APART
The complete list — 6 of them. The section above groups the common ones by what APART is doing.