fall apart

Verb

Meaning

become separated into pieces or fragments

go to pieces

break or fall apart into fragments

lose one's emotional or mental composure

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

break come apart separate bust disintegrate crumble split up go to pieces break apart fall to pieces fall to bits moulder lose it split wear

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Antonyms

chill out build bond combine decompress simmer down

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Hypernyms

lose it decay snap break down disintegrate crumble

Hyponyms

run ladder split burst fragment crack

Examples

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? Ernest Hemingway

People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart. Bertolt Brecht

In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart. Marianne Williamson

It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart. Simon Blackburn

A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature. Loretta Young

Someday the old shack we call the world will fall apart. How, we don't know, and we don't really care either. Since nothing has real substance, and life is a twirl in the void, its beginning and its end are meaningless. Emil Cioran

Close letter words and terms

fall against fall all over fall among fall apart at the seams fall armyworm fall around