What is another word for fly apart?

Pronunciation: [flˈa͡ɪ ɐpˈɑːt] (IPA)

Fly apart is a phrase that describes an object or structure breaking apart or disintegrating into pieces. This can happen due to a variety of reasons, from structural weakness or age to external forces such as impacts or explosions. Synonyms for fly apart include shatter, fracture, break apart, burst, split, fragment, disintegrate, crumble, and explode. Each word describes the process of an object or structure coming apart in a different way, but they all convey a sense of sudden, violent destruction. When something flies apart, it can be a dangerous and chaotic situation that requires immediate attention to prevent further damage or harm.

What are the hypernyms for Fly apart?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Fly apart

  • Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
    Grover Cleveland
  • Minds do not act together in public they simply stick together and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
    Frank Moore Colby
  • The mass psycho-social national cohesiveness has trembled on the brink of disruption and disintegration repeatedly over the last fifty years, threatening to fly apart from its own concentric inner dynamics. But at each crisis it was allowed to reform itself; with each reform, revolution became more remote.
    George Jackson (activist)
  • Dark matter is what my research team is looking for. No one knows what it is. There's more stuff out there in the universe than we can see, that's the point. We can see the stars and the galaxies and the things that shine, but for it all to hang together and not fly apart, there needs to be a lot more of it — to make gravity work, you see. But no one can detect it. So there are lots of different research projects trying to find out what it is, and this is one of them. ... We think it's some kind of elementary particle. Something quite different from anything discovered so far. But the particles are very hard to detect.
    Philip Pullman
  • Too many tongues have gates which fly apart Too easily, and care for many things That don’t concern them.
    Theognis of Megara

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