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View synonyms for fall apart

fall apart

verb

  1. to break owing to long use or poor construction

    the chassis is falling apart

  2. to become disorganized and ineffective

    since you resigned, the office has fallen apart

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

Collapse, break down, either physically or mentally and emotionally. For example, This chair is about to fall apart , or After his wife died, he fell apart . For synonyms for the latter usage, see come apart at the seams ; go to pieces .
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Example Sentences

Sam watches her fall apart, tear herself apart and is desperate.

As India gained freedom, and matured into herself, the Imperial began to fall apart.

Unsurprisingly, their lives immediately begin to fall apart under the scrutiny.

Usually you say to yourself, Well, one of those will fall apart.

They struggle, they love, they fall apart, they dominate, they're flawed.

Martha laughed, and rolling the big, barrel-churn upon its side was more than delighted to see it fall apart, useless.

Cutting corners—the words began to fall apart, forming curious phrasings—little illuminated pieces of themselves.

The angle at which they walked made one of the clumps of tree before them seem to fall apart.

Experiences that to others are wholes, to the psychologist fall apart into their elements.

Cook in an uncovered vessel until tender enough to be easily pierced with a fork, but not so soft as to fall apart.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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