unmake
verb (used with object)
to cause to be as if never made; reduce to the original elements or condition; undo; destroy.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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He saw that Greece was unmaking Rome; but he did not see that mankind required that Rome should be unmade.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Charles Thomas Cruttwell