单词 | come apart |
释义 | come apart (once / 20414 pages) v WORD FAMILY come apart: came apart, comes apart, coming apart USAGE EXAMPLESCharles Murray, America’s gloomiest social scientist, warns that society is “coming apart” as the rich retreat into their gated communities. Economist(Nov 23, 2016) Homestretch stabilizes families that are in danger of coming apart. Washington Post(Nov 22, 2016) Public education in Kansas is coming apart at the seams, and Jameson can no longer recommend to others what is his family’s vocation. Los Angeles Times(Nov 21, 2016) v become separated into pieces or fragments Syn|Hypo|Hyper break, fall apart, separate, split up break destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments break open, burst, split come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure puncturebe pierced or punctured burst, bustbreak open or apart suddenly and forcefully smashbreak suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow ladder, runcome unraveled or undone as if by snagging crack, snapbreak suddenly and abruptly, as under tension break up, fragment, fragmentise, fragmentizebreak or cause to break into pieces crushbecome injured, broken, or distorted by pressure popburst open with a sharp, explosive sound blowburst suddenly stave, stave inburst or force (a hole) into something atomise, atomizebreak up into small particles bray, comminute, crunch, grind, mashreduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading poundbreak down and crush by beating, as with a pestle shatterbreak into many pieces sunderbreak apart or in two, using violence sliver, splinterbreak up into splinters or slivers ragbreak into lumps before sorting crumbbreak into crumbs brecciatebreak into breccia crushbreak into small pieces grate, grindmake a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together change integrity change in physical make-up |
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