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crumbling

adjective as in rotting

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Along the river, crumbling remnants of an active trading hub are overtaken by nature.

Next, the GOP should hammer away at how our roads, bridges, and tunnels are crumbling, and push for an infrastructure initiative.

For anyone who cared to watch, the event and its denouement provided a graphic demonstration that the Iron Curtain was crumbling.

Particularly with Legolas and the scene where he climbs up a crumbling tower.

In a bedroom at the top of crumbling stairs, a bed was made up with a comforter.

Beyond the village, on a rise of ground, was the church, its square gray tower crumbling down upon its ancient graves.

In this way they passed beyond the deserted and crumbling village and gained the high-road that led homewards through the forest.

The few who escaped our swords are penned up in the Residency, and its walls are now crumbling before our guns.

The site of the castle is occupied by the railway station, though a few crumbling walls of the former structure still remain.

In all cases there is a stairway, often long and steep, crumbling with time and worn with the feet of pious generations.

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On this page you'll find 29 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to crumbling, such as: collapsing, decaying, breaking, disintegrating, breaking up, and in ruins.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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