COME APART

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does come apart mean? 

• COME APART (verb)
  The verb COME APART has 1 sense:

1. become separated into pieces or fragments

  Familiarity information: COME APART used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COME APART (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become separated into pieces or fragments

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

break; come apart; fall apart; separate; split up

Context example:

The freshly baked loaf fell apart

Hypernyms (to "come apart" is one way to...):

change integrity (change in physical make-up)

Verb group:

break (destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come apart"):

break open; burst; split (come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure)

puncture (be pierced or punctured)

burst; bust (break open or apart suddenly and forcefully)

smash (break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow)

ladder; run (come unraveled or undone as if by snagging)

crack; snap (break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension)

break up; fragment; fragmentise; fragmentize (break or cause to break into pieces)

crush (become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

The act of taking something apart; to come apart.

(Disassembly, NCI Thesaurus)

Issue associated with the linking of device and/or device components whereby termination of the transfer of liquid, gas, electricity, or information cannot be accomplished, or linking components do not come apart, or disconnect, when expected.

(Failure to Disconnect Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

Within about 30 seconds following loss of signal, the spacecraft will begin to come apart; within a couple of minutes, all remnants of the spacecraft are expected to be completely consumed in the atmosphere of Saturn.

(Cassini Spacecraft Makes Its Final Approach to Saturn, NASA)