fall apart
English
Pronunciation
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Verb
- (intransitive) To disintegrate.
- My old briefcase is falling apart. I'll have to buy a new one.
- 2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France[1]:
- England's World Cup dreams fell apart under a French onslaught on a night when their shortcomings were brutally exposed at the quarter-final stage.
- (idiomatic) To be emotionally in crisis.
- As a result of being addicted to heroin, she was falling apart.
Synonyms
- (break into pieces through being in a dilapidated state): break, break apart, break up, come apart, come apart at the seams, disintegrate, fall to bits, fall to pieces, come undone
- (be emotionally in crisis): crack up
Translations
intransitive: break into pieces through being in a dilapidated state
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be emotionally in crisis
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