Word.ws English Dictionary

come apart at the seams

come apart at the seams verb: synonym of fall apart.

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) Synonym of fall apart.
    Synonyms:
    fall apart

Synonyms of come apart at the seams

Forms of come apart at the seams

third-person singular presentcomes apart at the seams
present participlecoming apart at the seams
pastcame apart at the seams
past participlecome apart at the seams

Questions about come apart at the seams

What does come apart at the seams mean?
Come apart at the seams means synonym of fall apart.
What part of speech is come apart at the seams?
Come apart at the seams is a verb.
What is the past tense of come apart at the seams?
The past tense of come apart at the seams is came apart at the seams.

Words near come apart at the seams in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: come apart at the seams (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “come apart at the seams.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/come_apart_at_the_seams. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.