Crumbling and Gone

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Gone and crumbling are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Gone" instead an adjective "Crumbling".

Nearby Words: crumble, crumbled, crumbly

Gone adjective - No longer existing.

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Crumbling and gone are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Crumbling" instead an adjective "Gone".

Nearby Words: go, goner, goneness

Chiaroscuro City Noir Crapsack World: post-World War III Europe is nothing but a crumbling pile of ruins where eveybody has gone dirt poor, deeply corrupt, completly mad, or a combination of those.

Source: Film / The Element of Crime
In Elantris, the magic has gone away, leaving the eponymous city a crumbling ruin inhabited by zombies when it had been a borderline-utopia before.

Source: After The End / Literature
This is a major divergence from the book, wherein civilization was pretty much completely gone, buildings crumbling, machines rusted to junk, books decayed to the point of falling apart.

Source: Ragnarok-Proofing

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