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Synonyms for fall apart
fall apart
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Wiktionary
fall apartverb
Synonyms:
crack up, break up, come apart, fall to pieces, break, disintegrate, break apart, come apart at the seams, fall to bitsfall apartverb
To break into pieces through being in a dilapidated state.
My old briefcase is falling apart. I'll have to buy a new one.
Synonyms:
come apart at the seams, break, break apart, fall to bits, crack up, come apart, break up, disintegrate, fall to piecesfall apartverb
To be emotionally in crisis.
As a result of being addicted to heroin, she was falling apart.
Synonyms:
break apart, fall to bits, break up, come apart at the seams, break, come apart, fall to pieces, crack up, disintegrate
Princeton's WordNet
fall apart, go to piecesverb
lose one's emotional or mental composure
"She fell apart when her only child died"
Synonyms:
separate, bust, wear, wear out, crumble, split up, go to pieces, break, come apartbreak, wear, wear out, bust, fall apartverb
go to pieces
"The lawn mower finally broke"; "The gears wore out"; "The old chair finally fell apart completely"
Synonyms:
crack, raid, tire out, break away, give way, hold out, soften, reveal, develop, unwrap, conk out, assume, jade, collapse, die, transgress, founder, weaken, discover, snap off, stop, go, demote, tire, break out, separate, don, split, give away, damp, wear off, smash, get into, interrupt, have on, get out, fracture, relegate, bring out, violate, divulge, pause, let on, get around, wear out, cave in, wear down, break-dance, break up, check, wear thin, give out, break in, give, split up, wear upon, better, burst, go bad, endure, rupture, breach, break off, disclose, bust, erupt, weary, recrudesce, break dance, go against, dampen, fatigue, break down, fall in, tear, put on, bump, let out, ruin, fag out, offend, kick downstairs, bear, part, infract, outwear, fail, come apart, bankrupt, crumble, go to pieces, expose, break, discontinue, intermit, snap, wearcrumble, fall apartverb
break or fall apart into fragments
"The cookies crumbled"; "The Sphinx is crumbling"
Synonyms:
break down, decay, separate, crumple, bust, tumble, wear, dilapidate, collapse, crumble, split up, go to pieces, break, come apart, wear outbreak, separate, split up, fall apart, come apartverb
become separated into pieces or fragments
"The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"
Synonyms:
crack, break away, give way, soften, reveal, develop, single out, unwrap, conk out, expose, die, distinguish, transgress, founder, weaken, discover, snap off, stop, go, ramify, demote, break out, separate, split, sort out, give away, damp, smash, interrupt, carve up, offend, get out, fracture, relegate, discriminate, bring out, violate, class, divulge, divorce, pause, let on, get around, wear out, cave in, sort, fork, tell apart, break-dance, break up, check, give out, break in, give, split up, branch, secern, better, furcate, burst, go bad, tell, secernate, breach, break off, disclose, bust, erupt, collapse, recrudesce, break dance, divide, go against, dampen, severalize, break down, assort, fall in, bump, let out, dissever, severalise, ruin, kick downstairs, disunite, part, infract, fail, come apart, bankrupt, crumble, differentiate, break, discontinue, intermit, go to pieces, wear, classify
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#123 | go | |
#207 | part | |
#272 | check | |
#388 | class | |
#495 | better | |
#555 | give | |
#723 | tell | |
#923 | sort | |
#1038 | stop | |
#1482 | develop | |
#1618 | break | |
#1763 | die | |
#2200 | branch | |
#2228 | separate | |
#2490 | bear | |
#2636 | fail | |
#2664 | wear | |
#2982 | don | |
#2995 | discover | |
#3354 | assume | |
#3684 | split | |
#4224 | crack | |
#4862 | divorce | |
#5672 | founder | |
#6587 | tire | |
#7052 | collapse | |
#7124 | reveal | |
#7170 | raid | |
#7321 | snap | |
#7405 | fork | |
#8328 | divide | |
#9001 | breach | |
#9356 | tear | |
#9419 | disclose | |
#9715 | jade | |
#9876 | burst | |
#9954 | unwrap | |
#10055 | fatigue | |
#10134 | decay | |
#10269 | distinguish | |
#10588 | bump | |
#10611 | pause | |
#10713 | bust | |
#11623 | interrupt | |
#12366 | expose | |
#12746 | violate | |
#13346 | smash | |
#14164 | ruin | |
#14595 | fracture | |
#17787 | differentiate | |
#17899 | endure | |
#17934 | tumble | |
#18220 | damp | |
#19166 | classify | |
#19611 | discriminate | |
#19799 | weary | |
#21898 | bankrupt | |
#22808 | discontinue | |
#23039 | offend | |
#24292 | rupture | |
#25411 | weaken | |
#30385 | soften | |
#40580 | crumble | |
#42688 | divulge | |
#51445 | dampen | |
#53129 | erupt | |
#71034 | disintegrate | |
#98708 | transgress | |
#108826 | demote | |
#109510 | relegate | |
#116185 | crumple | |
#148439 | assort | |
#162209 | outwear | |
#318728 | intermit |
How to use fall apart in a sentence?
They basically fall apart into a pile of goo on the bottom of the seafloor.
W. B. Yeats, the second coming:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcone cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...
In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.
Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.
Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
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