Fall Apart

Definition: Fall Apart

Fall Apart

Verb

1. Lose one's emotional or mental composure.

2. Go to pieces; "The lawn mower finally broke"; "The gears wore out"; "The old chair finally fell apart completely".

3. Break or fall apart into fragments; "The cookies crumbled"; "The Sphinx is crumbling".

4. Become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Fall Apart

Destruction

Eboulement, smash, havoc, delabrement, debacle; break down, break up, fall apart; prostration; desolation, bouleversement, wreck, wrack, shipwreck, cataclysm; washout.

Crosswords: Fall Apart

I was willing to let my marriage fall apart, and my job slideall sorts of awful stuff. (Shannon's Deal; writing credit: David Greenwalt)

Do you want me to sit in a corner and rust or just fall apart where I'm standing? (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd)

Then your dreams fall apart at the seams (The Look Of Love; performing artist: ABC)

The sight of you, I fall apart (Last Night; performing artist: Az Yet)

Turnaround bright eyes, Every now and then I fall apart (TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART; performing artist: Bonnie Tyler)

She waits another week to fall apart, (American Girls; performing artist: Counting Crows)

I never saw anybody fall apart so fast (Dreamtime; performing artist: Daryl Hall)

Things Fall Apart (1971)

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Books

• Cliffsnotes Achebe's Things Fall Apart (Dummies Trade) (reference)

• CliffsNotes^TM Things Fall Apart (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Things Fall Apart [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

• Should the World Fail to Fall Apart (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Health

When this happens, the tau no longer holds the railroad tracks together and the microtubules fall apart. (references)

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Expression using "fall apart": fall apart at the seams. Additional references.

Chinese 

崩潰 (collapse, crumble). (various references)

Czech

rozpadnout se (come apart, disintegrate, go bust, go to pieces, ruin), rozklížit se (come apart). (various references)

French

tomber en morceaux (fall to pieces). (various references)

German

auseinanderfallen (collapse, come apart, disintegrate, to fall to pieces). (various references)

Hungarian

szétesik (come apart, disintegrate, fall to pieces, go to pieces, to break up, to come apart, to come to bits, to disintegrate, to fall apart, to go to bits, to unloose), darabokra hullik (to fall apart, to fragment). (various references)

Indonesian

ambyar (splatter). (various references)

Pig Latin

allfay apartay

Romanian

se dezagrega (disintegrate). (various references)

Russian 

развалиться на части (fall to pieces), разваливаться. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

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

Spanish

fracasar (abort, break down, bust, come to grief, come unstuck, crush, fail, fall down, fall through, founder, go awry, go phut, go under, miscarry, pip), romperse (break, break up, come apart, give, leak, live, part), desmoronarse (crumble, crumble away, crumble off, decay, fall away, fall in, fall off, molder, moulder), deshacerse (break up, come apart, dispose of, fall to pieces, make away with, palm, throw off). (various references)

Ukrainian

розпадатися (crumble, decompose, disjoin, shred). (various references)

dilabor. (various references)

berstan. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: pratfall.

-2 letters: palatal.

-4 letters: altar, apart, artal, fatal, ratal, talar.

-5 letters: afar, alar, alfa, atap, fall, farl, fart, flap, flat, frap, frat, pall, para, part, plat, prat, raft, rapt, tala, tall, tapa, tarp, trap.