Definition
To be emotionally in crisis.
To separate.
In Context
- "As a result of being addicted to heroin, she was falling apart."
- "At first I used to look at so many of us having fights or crying or staggering around messed up somehow and think, "God, are we fucked up!" but now what I think is that it was a safe place to fall apart in — one of the few. You didn't have to be politically correct or well-behaved; you could be wild or angry or miserable."
- "And when my care was moſt, by Gods pꝛouidence onely, by the burning aſunder of our ſpꝛitſaile-yard with ropes and ſaile, and the ropes about the ſpꝛitſaile-yard of the Carack, whereby we were faſt intangled, we fell apart, with burning of ſome of our ſailes which we had then on booꝛd."
- "Again the mountains fall apart, and in a wide basin of corn-land and pasture lies the bourgade of La Thuile."
- "You'll say, we've got nothing in common No common ground to start from And we're falling apart"
- "Others come on behind relentlessly and, in this way, it arrives before me as a tumbleweed of moving birds. Occasionally two of them, newly vanished, suddenly pop back up, all legs and squabbling beak, then they fall apart and resume the stab-and-prise feeding technique that scientists call Zirkeln."