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come apart

come apart verb: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, apart.

Verb

come apart (third-person singular simple present comes apart, present participle coming apart, simple past came apart, past participle come apart)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, apart.
  2. (intransitive) To break, separate.
    • The jigsaw puzzle will come apart if you try to pick it up.
    • My old clothes are all coming apart.
    Synonyms:
    come undone
  3. (intransitive) To have an emotional breakdown; to become emotionally dysfunctional; to have an intense emotional reaction.
    Synonyms:
    come undone

come apart meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

come apart in Malayalam

break up, fall to bits, fall to pieces
തകർന്നടിഞ്ഞുവീഴുക, ചിന്നിച്ചിതറിപ്പോവുക, പൊളിയുക, പൊളിഞ്ഞുപോകുക, ശിഥിലമാകുക, പൊട്ടുക

come apart in Kannada

ಚೂರು ಚೂರಾಗು, ಬಂಧ ಸಡಿಲವಾಗು

Synonyms of come apart

Forms of come apart

third-person singular presentcomes apart
present participlecoming apart
pastcame apart
past participlecome apart

Words formed from come apart

Questions about come apart

What does come apart mean?
Come apart means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, apart.
What is come apart in Malayalam?
Come apart in Malayalam is തകർന്നടിഞ്ഞുവീഴുക, ചിന്നിച്ചിതറിപ്പോവുക, പൊളിയുക. See Come apart meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is come apart?
Come apart is a verb.
What is the past tense of come apart?
The past tense of come apart is came apart.

Words near come apart in the dictionary

  1. come aloft
  2. come along
  3. come alongs
  4. come and go
  5. come and gone
  6. come apart
  7. come apart at the seams
  8. come around
  9. come as no surprise
  10. come at
  11. come at a cost

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: come apart (page history and authors); come apart (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); come apart (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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