单词 | to come apart |
释义 | > as lemmasto come apart to come apart 1. intransitive. To become separated or disconnected. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate, come, or go apart [verb (intransitive)] to-dealeOE shedc1000 asunderOE to-twemea1225 sunderc1225 twin?c1225 atwin?a1400 to make separationc1450 separe1490 twain15.. sever1545 unsever1609 spread1611 separate1638 disclaim1644 to come apart1764 to go separate ways1774 twine1886 1764 A. Purver New & Literal Transl. Bks. Old & New Test. I. (Psalms xxii. 14) 656/2 I am poured out like Water, and all my Bones come apart. 1787 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 961/1 There were hardly three stones remained together; and those that did adhere to one another, in a few days came apart. 1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 69 To sleeze,..to separate; to come apart: applied to cloth, when the warp and woof readily separate from each other. 1893 T. R. R. Stebbing Hist. Crustacea iv. 46 It [sc. the intestinal canal] is sometimes deeply cleft, as though the two terga, or dorsal plates, of the body-ring had come apart. 1949 J. G. Watkins Hypnotherapy of War Neuroses vi. 64 Those fingers get tighter and tighter together... No matter how hard we try, they will not come apart. 1967 J. Wain Smaller Sky 125 The two objectives were stuck together and would not come apart in his mind. 2016 Independent (Nexis) 20 Jan. (Sport section) 56 He was annoyed that replays showed his hands coming apart for the first catch when he and Farbrace have repeatedly practised keeping them together. 2. intransitive. See also to come apart at the seams (see seam n.1 1d). a. literal and figurative. To break up, collapse, or disintegrate; to come undone. ΚΠ 1822 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 12 Oct. 113 [The whip].., owing to the terrible violence with which it had been used, broke, or rather, came apart. 1861 A. Eldridge Addr. delivered before New Eng. Soc. 22 Dec. 1860 15 It is altogether too early to talk of dissolution and decay... Do nations come apart, and when the dew of youth is still upon them? Never. 1901 J. Black Illustr. Carpenter & Builder Ser.: Scaffolding 35 We have never seen a pinned ladder come apart. 1989 D. Maharidge & M. Williamson And their Children after Them iv. i. 132 As her family came apart, she became bitter but full of self-determination. 2012 ‘Gentle Author’ Spitalfields Life 350/2 We love them for..their make-up that smears, their wigs that come off and their trashy costumes that come apart. b. Of a person: to become mentally unbalanced; to lose emotional composure. Cf. to fall apart 2c at fall v. Phrasal verbs 1.In quot. 1954 as part of an extended metaphor. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > be or become mad [verb (intransitive)] dwelec900 wedec900 awedeeOE starea1275 braidc1275 ravea1325 to be out of mindc1325 woodc1374 to lose one's mindc1380 madc1384 forgetc1385 to go out of one's minda1398 to wede (out) of, but wita1400 foolc1400 to go (also fall, run) mada1450 forcene1490 ragec1515 waltc1540 maddle?c1550 to go (also run, set) a-madding (or on madding)1565 pass of wita1616 to have a gad-bee in one's brain1682 madden1704 to go (also be) off at the nail1721 distract1768 craze1818 to get a rat1890 to need (to have) one's head examined (also checked, read)1896 (to have) bats in the belfryc1901 to have straws in one's hair1923 to take the bats1927 to go haywire1929 to go mental1930 to go troppo1941 to come apart1954 1954 R. Lardner Ecstasy Owen Muir ii. i. 159 Some day he'll come apart like a clay pigeon. I think April realizes it too; she's always in there buttering him up whenever he gets that Messiah look in his eye. 1959 Flying Mar. 24/2 If any old pilot ever had an excuse to crack, you have had. I saw you beginning to come apart when they gave you the medal for ‘a lifetime devoted to airpower’... That rocked you. 1971 B. K. Green Village Horse Doctor 210 When Ruth..saw Frank layin' there kind of an ash color, sensitive womanlike that she was she nearly came apart. 2011 Time Out N.Y. 24 Mar. 49/4 More recent, journo-heavy reports explore our current-day fascination with celebrities coming apart. < as lemmas |
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