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fall to pieces

fall to pieces verb: to break into a number of segments; to collapse.

Verb

fall to pieces (third-person singular simple present falls to pieces, present participle falling to pieces, simple past and past participle fell to pieces)

  1. To break into a number of segments; to collapse.
    • The covers of the old book fell to pieces when I picked it up.
  2. (figuratively) To be emotionally devastated; to break down.
    • When I found out my mother had passed away that night, I fell to pieces.

fall to pieces meaning in Tamil and Sanskrit

fall to pieces in Tamil

உதிர்

fall to pieces in Sanskrit

to fall to pieces or to dust, decay, be ruined, perish
ध्वंस् dhvaṃs

Forms of fall to pieces

third-person singular presentfalls to pieces
present participlefalling to pieces
past participlefell to pieces
pastfell to pieces

Questions about fall to pieces

What does fall to pieces mean?
Fall to pieces means to break into a number of segments; to collapse.
What is fall to pieces in Tamil?
Fall to pieces in Tamil is உதிர். See Fall to pieces meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fall to pieces?
Fall to pieces is a verb.
What is the past tense of fall to pieces?
The past tense of fall to pieces is fell to pieces.

Words near fall to pieces in the dictionary

  1. fall time
  2. fall times
  3. fall to
  4. fall to bits
  5. fall to one's knees
  6. fall to pieces
  7. fall to someone's lot
  8. fall to the ground
  9. fall together
  10. fall under
  11. fall up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fall to pieces (page history and authors); fall to pieces (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ध्वंस् (Sanskrit) (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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