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go to pieces

go to pieces verb: to become very upset or emotional, to have a breakdown.

Verb

go to pieces (third-person singular simple present goes to pieces, present participle going to pieces, simple past went to pieces, past participle gone to pieces)

  1. To become very upset or emotional, to have a breakdown.
  2. To deteriorate, get much worse, fall apart.

go to pieces meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

go to pieces in Malayalam

break down, have a breakdown, go out of one's mind
തകർന്നടിയുക, തകർന്നുപോകുക, തകരുക, പൊട്ടിത്തകരുക, വികാരം നിയന്ത്രിക്കാൻ പറ്റാതെ വരുക, അഴിയുക

go to pieces in Kannada

ಒಡೆದು ಚೂರಾಗು, ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣ ನಾಶವಾಗು

Forms of go to pieces

third-person singular presentgoes to pieces
present participlegoing to pieces
pastwent to pieces
past participlegone to pieces

Questions about go to pieces

What does go to pieces mean?
Go to pieces means to become very upset or emotional, to have a breakdown.
What is go to pieces in Malayalam?
Go to pieces in Malayalam is തകർന്നടിയുക, തകർന്നുപോകുക, തകരുക. See Go to pieces meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is go to pieces?
Go to pieces is a verb.
What is the past tense of go to pieces?
The past tense of go to pieces is went to pieces.

Words near go to pieces in the dictionary

  1. go to Halifax
  2. go to heck
  3. go to hell
  4. go to hell and back
  5. go to pains
  6. go to pieces
  7. go to pigs and whistles
  8. go to plan
  9. go to pot
  10. go to press
  11. go to Prestwich

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: go to pieces (page history and authors); go to pieces (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); go to pieces (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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