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FALL TO PIECES

Synonyms within Context: FALL TO PIECES

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Modern Usage: FALL TO PIECES

DomainUsage

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.

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Modern Translation: FALL TO PIECES

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

   

Romanian

  

se sfãrâma în bucãţi. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

рассыпаться (disperse, molder, moulder, scat), распасться (disintegrate), развалиться на части (fall apart). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

raspasti se (crumble, crumble up, disintegrate, fall apart, go to pieces). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

desvencijarse (come apart), deshacerse (break up, come apart, dispose of, fall apart, make away with, palm, throw off). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

falla sönder (crumble), falla isär, falla i bitar. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukrainian

  

розбитися на дрізки (come to pieces). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: FALL TO PIECES

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.

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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