venirse abajo

Spanish

Verb

venirse abajo (first-person singular present me vengo abajo, first-person singular preterite me vine abajo, past participle venido abajo)

1. (idiomatic) to collapse
2. (idiomatic) to come to nothing
3. (idiomatic) to go to pieces

   Después del divorcio se vino abajo.

   After the divorce, he went to pieces.

Further reading

• “irse, o venirse, abajo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10