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Fall apart

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  1. 1
    To disintegrate, to break into pieces. intransitive

    "My old briefcase is falling apart. I'll have to buy a new one."

  2. 2
    become separated into pieces or fragments wordnet
  3. 3
    To be emotionally in crisis. idiomatic, intransitive

    "As a result of being addicted to heroin, she was falling apart."

  4. 4
    break or fall apart into fragments wordnet
  5. 5
    To separate. idiomatic, intransitive

    "And when my care was moſt, by Gods pꝛouidence onely, by the burning aſunder of our ſpꝛitſaile-yard with ropes and ſaile, and the ropes about the ſpꝛitſaile-yard of the Carack, whereby we were faſt intangled, we fell apart, with burning of ſome of our ſailes which we had then on booꝛd."

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  1. 6
    go to pieces wordnet
  2. 7
    lose one's emotional or mental composure wordnet

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