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 Yet on a scorching Monday afternoon, Ludlow sat alone at a streetside coffee shop in Eagle Rock, trying to account for how the biggest jazz event in Los Angeles history fell apart. — Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026 Fresh off signing a $73 million contract extension with the Astros, Oswalt was facing the New York Mets, a team that tried to trade for him a few weeks prior before talks on a three-way deal that also included the Baltimore Orioles fell apart. — Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026 Trump also ruled out extending the 60-day ceasefire agreement, which expired Monday, after the deal effectively fell apart. — Jenni Reid,emma Graham, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2026 But everything fell apart in 2023, his third year in the league. — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2026 The agreement fell apart in July, and Iran resumed attacks against commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, insisting that the memorandum’s vague wording recognized its control of the key waterway. — Ned Temko, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Aug. 2026 The sale comes amid a pair of parallel federal probes in Walter’s multibillion-dollar business empire, and just a few weeks after Kushner’s deal to lead an investment into FIFA’s proposed $20 billion commercial venture fell apart. — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 13 Aug. 2026 Speaking publicly for the first time since discussions fell apart in Springfield, McCaskey said the Bears aren’t second-guessing their strategy to get a deal done in Illinois. — Sean Hammond, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026 But a memorandum of understanding reached between the two countries in June quickly fell apart, and there's been little evidence of progress toward an agreement since. — Joey Garrison, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026

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lost it

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More than a week after the initial storm, many residents in East Chicago, Indiana, who lost power regained it, but then lost it again.

— ABC News, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026
Some people who lost power after the storm last week got it back, but then lost it again because of the fire.

— Lauren Victory, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026

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