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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Brittleness | Break, crack, snap, split, shiver, splinter, crumble, break short, burst, fly, give way; fall to pieces; crumble to, crumble into dust. |
Destruction | Verb: be destroyed; perish; fall to the ground; tumble, topple; go to pieces, fall to pieces; break up; crumble to dust; go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, go to wreck, go to pot, go to wrack and ruin; go by the board, go all to smash; be all over, be all up, be all with; totter to its fall. |
Disjunction | Verb: be disjoined; come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces; peel off; get loose. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | You walk by and I fall to pieces (I Fall To Pieces; performing artist: Patsy Cline; writing credit: Harlan Howard and Hank Cochran) I fall to pieces ("I Fall to Pieces"; performing artist: Patsy Cline) | |
Song Titles | I Fall To Pieces (performing artist: Patsy Cline) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "FALL TO PIECES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rrëzohet (fall in, founder, lop), prishem (be destroyed, break off, decay, decompose, deteriorate, fail, fall, fall out, go awry, go phut, go wrong, pack up, perish, putrefy, quarrel, rot, run to seed, separate, take apart, touch, turn sour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تهشم (crash, fragmentation, shatter, smash, snap), إنكسر (piece, snap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rozpadnout se na kusy. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tomber en ruines, tomber en morceaux (fall apart), se casser, se briser. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verkommen (abandoned, become dilapidated, become dissolute, become run-down, become spoiled, decay, depraved, deteriorate, dilapidated, go bad, go to pieces, go to the bad, go to the dogs, go to waste, reprobate, reprobated, reprobately, run wild, scrofulous, sleazy, sordid, to reprobate, wild). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"תפרק (break up, come apart, disband, snug), ל"שבר (be broken, be destroyed, be ruined, break). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szétesik (come apart, disintegrate, go to pieces, to break up, to come apart, to come to bits, to disintegrate, to fall apart, to go to bits, to unloose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | berantakan (in a disarray, in a mess, mussy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sfasciare (break upon, smash up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | allfay otay iecespay se sfãrâma în bucãţi. (various references) рассыпаться (disperse, molder, moulder, scat), распасться (disintegrate), развалиться на части (fall apart). (various references) raspasti se (crumble, crumble up, disintegrate, fall apart, go to pieces). (various references) desvencijarse (come apart), deshacerse (break up, come apart, dispose of, fall apart, make away with, palm, throw off). (various references) falla sönder (crumble), falla isär, falla i bitar. (various references) yıkılmak (break down, cave, cave in, collapse, come down, crack up, crumble, drop down, fall, fall down, fall over, founder, go to pieces, go to ruin, shipwreck, tumble, tumble down, wither away), paramparça olmak (be torn to pieces, disintegrate, smash), parçalara ayrılmak (break to pieces, chip off), parçalanmak (break, break to pieces, break up, come apart, crash, crumble, crush, decay, digest, disintegrate, disrupt, fly to pieces, go into splinters, go splinters, go to pieces, rend, rupture, shatter, shiver, shred, smash, Spall, splinter, split, split off). (various references) розбитися на дрізки (come to pieces). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-f-i-l-l-o-p-s-t" | |
-3 letters: calliopes, callipees, celestial, fellatios, localites, oscillate, palletise, scapolite, soleplate, teocallis. | |
-4 letters: allspice, calipees, calliope, callipee, capelets, capitols, coaliest, coalpits, collapse, collates, ectopias, epifocal, escallop, especial, fealties, fellates, fellatio, fetiales, fleapits, floatels, focalise, foliates, icefalls, leafiest, leaflets, lealties, localise, localist, localite, ocellate, opalesce, palliest, pastille, petioles, picotees, pitfalls, poetical, polecats, pollices, postface, septical. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Translations: Modern 3. Anagrams 4. Bibliography |
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