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GO TO PIECES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does go to pieces mean?
• GO TO PIECES (verb)
The verb GO TO PIECES has 1 sense:
1. lose one's emotional or mental composure
Familiarity information: GO TO PIECES used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lose one's emotional or mental composure
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
fall apart; go to pieces
Context example:
She fell apart when her only child died
Hypernyms (to "go to pieces" is one way to...):
break down; lose it; snap (lose control of one's emotions)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Context examples
Your society of slaves—of, by, and for, slaves—must inevitably weaken and go to pieces as the life which composes it weakens and goes to pieces.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Was it not liable to go to pieces at any moment?
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It's thought, down on the beach, she'll go to pieces every moment.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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