disintegrate
verb (used without object)
to separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; break up; deteriorate.
were disintegrating
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past progressiveof disintegrate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Deindustrialization was happening, and old mining communities were disintegrating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
In lower-income neighborhoods, many buildings were disintegrating, and some public schools were far from parks and other green spaces.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2023
It may also help explain why, for Americans, it can feel as if the world as a whole were disintegrating.
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2022
We are a generation that came into adulthood at the exact moment that its norms were disintegrating.
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2014
She feels transparent, as if the hard lines of her hulking form were disintegrating.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
