come undone

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come undone

verb comes undone · coming undone · came undone · come undone

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, undone; to become undone or unfastened. My shoelace came undone.
  2. colloquial To become disintegrated, to break into parts or pieces. I never seen you looking so bad, my funky one / You tell me that your super fine mind has come undone

    Similar: come apart, fall apart

  3. figuratively To come to ruin, to fail; to lose one's composure or self-control. He came undone when his wife refused to support him.

    Similar: come apart

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verb become disintegrated

Españoldespedazarse, deshacerse
Deutschzerfallen, auseinanderfallen
Русскийраспадаться raspadatʹsja

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@misc{come_undone_2026,
  title = {come undone},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/come%20undone},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}