falling apart
Coming to pieces
Falling apart describes something breaking into pieces or losing structural integrity: The old book was falling apart in my hands.
More often figurative—a person falling apart is losing emotional control or mental composure: She fell apart after the divorce.
A plan or organization falling apart is failing or disintegrating: The whole deal is falling apart.
- crumblingBreaking down gradually
- falling to piecesLosing structural integrity
- collapseSudden structural failure
- breakdownFailure or decomposition
- dilapidatedRuined through neglect
on its last legs · unraveling · disintegrate · deteriorate · decay · corroding · fragment · ramshackle · shatter · splintering · worn · fracture · estrangement · threadbare · wreckage · pieces · broken down · betrayal
- deterioratingdecaying, decomposing, degrading, rotting, eroding
- coming apartunravel, fraying, coming undone, disintegration, unweaving
- damageddamaged, broken, wrecked, ruined, destroyed
- setbacksfailing, back to square one, stuck, losing, stumbles
- dissolutionbreakup, breakdown, liquidation, wind down, disintegration
- meltdownsnuclear meltdown, reactor meltdown, meltdown, freak out, losing it
falling apartintact
Not damaged or altered
holding together · in one piece · solid · whole · sturdy
falling apartwell-maintained
Properly looked after
in working order · good as new · functioning · operational · shipshape
falling apartholding it together
Maintaining composure despite strain
keeping it together · composed · together · stable · in control
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