Crumbling and Declining

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Declining and crumbling are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Declining" instead the word "Crumbling" as an adjective or a noun.

Nearby Words: crumble, crumbled, crumbly

Declining adjective - Bending downward or forward.

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Crumbling and declining are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Crumbling" instead the word "Declining" as an adjective or a noun.

Council Estate: The entire show is set in the murky, declining Chatsworth estate, with its identikit 60's social housing, crumbling pavements, graffitied walls and ugly tower blocks dominating the skyline.

Source: Series / Shameless (UK)
This explains why the genre boomed from the '60s through the '80s (a time when people were afraid of declining moral values, a crumbling economy, and nuclear war) and from the mid '00s into the present (when fear of terrorism, bigotry, and economic malaise ran high).

Source: Dork Age / Film

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