come to pieces vs implode

come to pieces

implode

verb
  • To collapse or burst inward violently. 

  • To cause to collapse or burst inward violently. 

  • To compress (data) with a particular algorithm. 

  • The opposite of explode, array to string conversion. 

How often have the words come to pieces and implode occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )