Synonyms for fall apart
fall apart

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1. fall apartverb

   Synonyms:
   crack up, break up, come apart, fall to pieces, break, disintegrate, break apart, come apart at the seams, fall to bits

2. fall 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 pieces

3. fall 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

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1. 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 apart

2. break, 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, wear

3. crumble, 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 out

4. break, 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

Matched Categories

1. • Change Integrity
   • Decay
   • Disintegrate
   • Lose It

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1. Joseph McCroy:

   It’s very hard transitioning back to civilian life, once you get back, the first thing you try to do is find a good job. But if you ca n’t find a job, everything else starts to fall apart. My house was foreclosed on, truck repossessed, I got divorced … I was homeless.

2. Stanley Ducharme:

   Some people can handle pressure and crises in their life and stay calm and loving, other people sort of fall apart—they get frustrated and upset and need to blame someone.

3. Suzanne Somers:

   I think dating is very important, when you have children - small children - you can’t pay as much attention to one another. And that’s usually when marriages fall apart - [when] raising children… I now know life is in chapters and the chapter we’re in right now… it’s just me and Al. Well, this is a powerful chapter. This is the one where you are in love all the time. That’s what I feel. I’m in love all the time. So how can that not work?

4. Matthys Levy:

   Once deterioration like this starts, it's insidious, it just continues. Unless you do something about Champlain Towers South engineering firm, the whole thing is going to fall apart, all of the concrete is going to fall apart.

5. Roseanne Barr:

   Jessica was becoming a textbook Mean Girl. I was being slowly swallowed alive by my anxiety, and Jake was silently watching it all happen, which was maybe the most disconcerting of all our reactions, our family was falling apart, and the stress of falling apart was making us fall apart even faster.