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fell apartphrasepast tense of fall apart to go through decompositionThe old house was falling apart before the restoration. broke down, corrupted, decayed, decomposed, disintegrated, festered, fouled, molded, moldered, perished(chiefly British), putrefied, rotted, spoiled(or chiefly British spoilt) soured, turned, turned off(British)contaminated, defiled, polluted, taintedaddled, curdled, fermentedmortifiedrustedcrumbled, declined, degenerated, descended, deteriorated, dilapidated, sank(or sunk), withered went to seed(or ran to seed) aged, developed, grew, matured, ripenedrefreshed, renewed, restoredcleansed, purifiedassembled, composed, integratedameliorated, bettered, improved, meliorated to yield to mental or emotional stressHe fell apart after his wife left. broke down, broke up, cracked, flipped (out)(slang), freaked (out), melted down, wigged (out)(slang) choked blew one's cool, lost it, went off the deep end, went to pieces |