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/Sounds like "kah" (as in "car") + "EHR" (as in "egg") + "seh" (as in "set") + "AH" (as in "art") + "peh" (as in "pet") + "DAH" (as in "dart") + "sohs" (as in "solo")/

Meaning

To be in very bad physical or emotional shape, at the absolute limit of your strength. In Argentina and Uruguay it applies equally to a person running on empty and to an object that has critically deteriorated.

Examples

She arrived at the doctor completely falling apart after three weeks of barely sleeping.

The car is falling to pieces: the engine and transmission both need replacing.

In Colombia, an intensifier meaning very, quite, or extremely. You put burdo before any adjective to crank it up to the max. "Burdo de bueno" means really, really good. "Burdo de inteligente" means off-the-charts smart. The Colombian way of saying something is completely over the top.