fall apart

Definitions

1. 1

   To disintegrate, to break into pieces.

   • My old briefcase is falling apart. I'll have to buy a new one.
   • England's World Cup dreams fell apart under a French onslaught on a night when their shortcomings were brutally exposed at the quarter-final stage.
   • It investigated extensive damage caused by a Robeston-Westerleigh train after the brake system under one of its wagons fell apart on October 30 2017.
2. 2

   To be emotionally in crisis.

   • As a result of being addicted to heroin, she was falling apart.
3. 3

   To separate.

   • Again the mountains fall apart, and in a wide basin of corn-land and pasture lies the bourgade of La Thuile.
   • You'll say, we've got nothing in common No common ground to start from And we're falling apart

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