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What is another word for falling to pieces?

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Adjective
▲
In a very bad condition
rundown
shabby
tatty
dilapidated
tumbledown
falling down
in disrepair
poorly maintained
ramshackle
crumbling
decrepit
broken-down
worn out
run down
threadbare
gone to rack and ruin
seedy
neglected
worse for wear
falling apart
decaying
ruined
in ruins
run-down
rickety
derelict
deteriorated
battered
moth-eaten
beat-up
more ❯
“The building is falling to pieces, and maintenance work has not been carried out for years.”
Adjective
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Falling apart or broken down
crumbling
dilapidated
ramshackle
decaying
derelict
rickety
rundown
deteriorating
disintegrating
rotten
collapsing
rotting
fragile
decomposing
crumbly
putrefying
molderingUS
eroding
peeling
subsiding
breaking
moulderingUK
in ruins
falling apart
on its last legs
breaking up
in bad condition
caving in
falling in
decrepit
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Of unsound structure, easily damaged or destroyed
feeble
weak
brittle
breakable
fragile
vulnerable
unsound
crumbly
frangible
tenuous
friable
decrepit
ramshackle
insubstantial
smashable
splintery
destroyable
destructible
disintegrating
fracturable
shatterable
crumbling
decaying
dodgy
frail
easily broken
easily destroyed
delicate
flimsy
fine
more ❯
Noun
▲
A (typically sudden) failure or collapse
crash
collapse
failure
foundering
ruin
breakdown
fizzle
ruination
cropper
crumbling
defeat
disintegration
downfall
buckling
crumpling
debacle
depression
falling
shutdown
wreck
falling apart
falling down
hindrance
disruption
hitch
crackup
cessation
impediment
falling through
fizzling out
more ❯
Noun
▲
Physical or structural deterioration
deterioration
decay
degeneration
decline
dilapidation
breakdown
decomposition
disintegration
rot
putrefaction
descent
atrophy
decaying
corruption
collapse
weakening
withering
ebbing
enfeeblement
crumbling
debilitation
perishing
corrosion
degradation
fading
declension
spoliation
rotting
break-up
falling apart
falling down
more ❯
Noun
▲
The act or state of destroying or being destroyed, especially completely
ruin
destruction
devastation
breakdown
collapse
ruination
demise
obliteration
decay
decimation
demolishment
demolition
disrepair
crash
damage
decrepitude
desolation
deterioration
dilapidation
disintegration
annihilation
decline
extermination
extinction
wastage
atrophy
crumbling
death
degeneracy
degeneration
dissolution
downfall
downgrade
end
havoc
labefaction
comedown
drop
subversion
topple
tumble
break-up
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to break into a number of segments
disintegrating
crumbling
breaking up
falling apart
coming apart
falling to bits
breaking
fragmenting
collapsing
shattering
splitting
fracturing
splintering
busting
riving
dismembering
disrupting
dividing
smashing
shivering
separating
smashing to smithereens
cracking
bursting
severing
rupturing
rending
tearing
going to rack and ruin
going to pieces
more ❯
“After many years of exposure to harsh weather conditions, the old wooden bridge began to fall to pieces.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to feel great fear about something
panicking
overreacting
flapping
becoming panic-stricken
freaking
getting overwrought
taking fright
falling apart
losing control
becoming hysterical
freaking out
getting the jitters
getting worked up
getting in a flap
getting into a tizz
getting the heebie-jeebies
getting the willies
going to pieces
getting flustered
getting in a stew
getting into a tizzy
getting the screaming heebie-jeebies
getting the wind up
going into a spin
having kittens
losing your bottle
losing your nerve
throwing a wobbly
freezing up
going into a flat spin
losing it
running around like a headless chicken
coming apart
having an attack of the wobblies
running scared
having a fit
pushing panic button
shaking in your boots
chickening out
losing your cool
Verb
▲
Present participle for to physically break apart and fall down
collapsing
subsiding
buckling
crumbling
crumpling
falling
giving
going
sagging
settling
slumping
tumbling
disintegrating
dropping
foundering
imploding
shattering
toppling
wilting
yielding
breaking
falling down
falling in
giving way
succumbing
caving in
coming apart
falling apart
breaking apart
going out
toppling over
breaking down
giving in
giving out
falling apart at the seams
coming down
going down
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to fail to be completed, particularly for lack of interest
coming to nothing
failing
foundering
collapsing
falling through
going wrong
coming to naught
ending in failure
ending in tears
going down the tube
flopping
miscarrying
misfiring
aborting
crumbling
going amiss
coming undone
not working
going adrift
coming apart
going badly
coming apart at the seams
going off course
going awry
coming a cropper
going up in smoke
not succeeding
falling apart
breaking down
unravelingUS
unravellingUK
going to ruin
falling flat
coming to grief
Verb
▲
Present participle for to become, or appear worse, in quality
suffering
deteriorating
declining
degrading
worsening
crumbling
degenerating
regressing
retrogressing
slumping
stagnating
atrophying
dropping
falling
languishing
retrograding
slipping
waning
collapsing
devolving
failing
flagging
lapsing
sinking
skidding
sliding
depreciating
drooping
ebbing
fading
becoming worse
going downhill
breaking down
dropping off
falling apart
getting worse
going backwards
going bad
hitting the skids
falling off
going down the toilet
going to pieces
going down the tubes
appearing in a poor light
going to rack and ruin
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to surrender to, or to be conquered by
falling
succumbing
submitting
surrendering
capitulating
yielding
bending
giving way
deferring
resigning
backing down
eating dirt
falling victim
giving in
giving up
going under
knuckling under
lying down
passing into the hands of
passing into enemy hands
falling victim to
Verb
▲
Present participle for to decay or rot
molderingUS
moulderingUK
rotting
decaying
decomposing
spoiling
putrefying
perishing
disintegrating
deteriorating
crumbling
wasting
breaking down
going bad
going off
going mouldy
falling apart
rotting away
falling into decay
going to rack and ruin
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