Definition of "come apart" []

• To break, separate. (verb)

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• "Flimsy baby doll dresses that come apart in the wash."
• "All underfoot were bodies and pieces of bodies, and so many men had come apart in the blowup and the shelling that the ground was slick and threw a terrible stink from their wet internalments."
• "Even if Al made the rope come apart -- which he could do easy enough -- there wasn't no way two White boys could outrun Reds in the forest."