FELL APART Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

fell apart

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past tense of fall apart

as in decomposed

to go through decomposition The old house was falling apart before the restoration.

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as in lost it

to yield to mental or emotional stress He fell apart after his wife left.

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Recent Examples of fell apart Previous ceasefire talks either failed or the truces quickly fell apart. — Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026 Later, a former professional boxer and a local politics kingmaker took over, but things fell apart around the time of the FBI’s raid on the property. — Lauren Mechling, Architectural Digest, 29 Oct. 2026 Previous efforts to secure ceasefires either never worked out or the truces quickly fell apart. — Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026 The Packers were on the road and fell apart in the second half. — Outkick, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2026 Do not waste too much energy recreating the exact plan that just fell apart. — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 28 Oct. 2026 However, that all expectedly fell apart in the brutal RT Overdrive test, bringing even the RTX 5080 system down to borderline less-than-playable frame rates. — Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 17 Oct. 2026 The Dream fell apart at winning time in Game 3, then watched the visitors celebrate on their floor. — Michael Cunningham, AJC.com, 16 Oct. 2026 Shared by conservative social media influencers, the claim quickly fell apart at closer inspection. — ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026

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lost it

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Trump’s endless war and its global economic destruction isn’t helping the North Carolina apple farmer who lost it all in Hurricane Helene.

— S.E. Cupp, New York Daily News, 8 Oct. 2026
One question that scientists have puzzled over for years is whether Venus always lacked a moon, or if the hottest planet in the solar system once had a natural satellite and somehow lost it.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2026

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