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单词 fall apart (or to pieces)
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fall apart (or to pieces)

1Break up, come apart, or disintegrate: their marriage is likely to fall apart...
  • Last time around, many expressways just fell apart, disintegrated after a few months.
  • I lost a burger down the gap in the grill - the burgers weren't the best quality and fell apart very easily.
  • Monkfish is the heavyweight contender of the fish world, so strong it can easily be reheated a couple of times without falling apart.

Synonyms

fall to pieces, come to pieces, fall to bits, come to bits, come apart (at the seams);
disintegrate, fragment, break up, break apart, crumble, dissolve, degenerate, decay, moulder, perish;
go downhill, go to rack and ruin
informal bust
1.1(Of a person) lose one’s capacity to cope: Angie fell to pieces because she had lost everything...
  • It is when we cannot manage life, when the level of stress outweighs mechanisms for coping with stress, that we fall apart.
  • It wasn't just her eating disorder, she began to fall apart in other ways, which at first we thought were typical early teenage behavior.
  • Though outwardly they maintained a facade of happiness, inwardly they began to fall apart.

Synonyms

break down, have a breakdown, go to pieces, fall to pieces, lose control, lose one's self-control, crumble
informal crack up, freak, freak out
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