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I get strained, break and come apart (12)

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I believe the answer is:

disintegrate

'come apart' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'i get strained break' is the wordplay.
'break' is an anagram indicator.
'i'+'get'+'strained'='igetstrained'
'igetstrained' with letters rearranged gives 'DISINTEGRATE'.

'and' is the link.

(Other definitions for disintegrate that I've seen before include "Fall apart - it isn't agreed (anag)" , "collapse" , "Crumble" , "Lose all cohesion" , "Go to pieces" .)

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