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Meanings of fall apart in English
Portuguese
dividir Catalan
trencar-se Become separated into pieces or fragments.
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Examples for "break"
Examples for "break"
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Yes, that really was his only break in the case thus far.
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Popular films did, however, break into the best picture race last year.
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Superb police work, chief: When you friend suggest you break the law.
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NK: Today we have not heard any reports of diseases break out.
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Mr Bell said health interventions could break the addiction and crime cycle.
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The ready-to-wear clothes industry, New York's major industry, is almost exclusively Jewish.
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Wrap dresses are easy to wear and hide all your problem areas.
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She asserts, quite trenchantly, her right to wear trousers on State occasions.
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I wish people would wear them from a voluntary basis, she said.
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Ultimately, of course, what you wear on your bike is personal choice.
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However, it remains a separate issue to the Good Friday alcohol ban.
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State media said they were planning two separate attacks on crowded areas.
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EU members have to be members of the separate Council of Europe.
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No territory, state or individual can separate and work underground, Barroso said.
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Hain said the issue of crime was a separate and complicated matter.
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In the early days of the financial crisis, ACA Capital went bust.
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But Polonsky soon went bust and ran afoul of the Russian state.
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The bust took place at the border between South Africa and Zimbabwe.
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In short, a good portion of the local stockbroking firms are bust.
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In July 2012, home prices were still falling from the housing bust.
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And so you wear out your eyesight in the working of chairs.
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The toil was fitted to wear out the strongest of his men.
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Running less than an hour, the film doesn't wear out its welcome.
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Gee, but he does wear out the engines in his cars, Whitney.
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So ladies and gentlemen, we're going to wear out some shoe leather.
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The other four members of the group split up the following year.
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They'd split up, Doris and Bert, a year after I left home.
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Following the split up both companies were seen as potential takeover targets.
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The couple had split up several months previously but remained business partners.
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Moller-Maersk could split up into separate companies, its chairman said on Thursday.
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I want to ask whether you intend to come apart like Cosgrove.
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Durable, lasts for years, won't come apart in water, hot or cold.
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After two months in the United States, Bourdin started to come apart.
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The current Coalition could well come apart before the next scheduled election.
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Never did she imagine, moments later, the whole thing would come apart.
Usage of fall apart in English
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You said Swayne began to fall apart a couple of years ago.
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Food and water keep your body together so it doesn't fall apart.
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There is no good reason why the United Kingdom should fall apart.
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A deal has not yet been reached and could yet fall apart.
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Fiction: 'Things started to fall apart at home when my brother .
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But you can't control if the economy is going to fall apart.
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Red lentils fall apart when simmered and are best used in purees.
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The whole heterogeneous empire of Austria seemed to fall apart at once.
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We cannot let Myanmar fall apart as it might undermine regional stability.
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Brad Setser Financial markets also betrayed unease that things could fall apart.
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The world he had created began to fall apart without his attention.
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Safety nets can fall apart and I went into a downward spiral.
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After all, neither of us wants this deal to fall apart now.'
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Watch them carefully, and remove them if they start to fall apart.
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All sense of order would be abandoned and life would fall apart.
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It was a way of staying busy so she didn't fall apart.
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