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Fall apart   /fɔl əpˈɑrt/   Listen
Fall apart

verb
1.
Lose one's emotional or mental composure.  Synonym: go to pieces.
2.
Go to pieces.  Synonyms: break, bust, wear, wear out.  "The gears wore out" , "The old chair finally fell apart completely"
3.
Break or fall apart into fragments.  Synonym: crumble.  "The Sphinx is crumbling"
4.
Become separated into pieces or fragments.  Synonyms: break, come apart, separate, split up.  "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"






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"Fall apart" Quotes from Famous Books



... due to our reversionary tendencies—uprooted by dissociation, disintegration or regression, with its lapse or descent to low cultural or psychic levels—these old components which reappear or rather fall apart and appear as independent activities, are exaggerated, inflated, caricatured or excessively performed. In our devolutionary tendency toward ancestral methods of reaction, the individual, resolved, so to speak, into his proximate elements, permits or is compelled by biological determinism to ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10

... taken shape. Once Paul's apostolate—-a personal one, parallel with the more collective apostolate of "the Twelve''—has proved itself by tokens of Divine approval, Peter and his colleagues frankly recognize the distinction of the two missions, and are anxious only to arrange that the two shall not fall apart by religiously and morally incompatible usages (Acts xv.). Paul, on his side, clearly implies that Peter felt with him that the Law could not justify (Gal. ii. 15 ff.), and argues that it could not now be made obligatory in principle (cf. "a yoke,'' Acts xv. 10); yet for Jews ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... on the part of Doris and me in our attempts to be somewhere else when Junior appears dragging the "funnies" (a loathsome term in itself) to be read to him. I make believe that the furnace looks as if it might fall apart at any minute if it is not watched closely, and Doris calls from upstairs that she may be some time over ...
— Love Conquers All • Robert C. Benchley



Words linked to "Fall apart" :   break up, crack, lose it, fragmentize, fragment, frazzle, crush, fragmentise, ladder, snap, decay, split, dilapidate, disintegrate, break open, fray, burst, change integrity, break down, puncture, run, smash



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