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hack apart

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hack someone or something apart 
1. Lit. to chop up someone or something. The murderer hacked the victim apart. He hacked apart the victim. The butcher hacked the chicken apart.
2. Fig. to criticize someone or something severely. The review just hacked him apart for his poor showing in the play. The critic hacked apart all the actors in the play.
See also: apart, hack


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In a murky, subterranean butchery, obscure tensions grow between two burly butchers as they hack apart slabs of flesh and bone.
Remember those creepy, crawly, musty-smelling things you used to hack apart in high school biology class?
 
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