crumble

Schools and clinics had crumbled, roads were impassable.
Les écoles et les cliniques étaient en ruines, les routes étaient impraticables.
By then, the Assyrian empire had crumbled.
D'ici là, l'empire assyrien se était écroulé.
The outer experience to them had crumbled and their lives were in chaos.
Pour eux, l’expérience extérieure s’était effritée et leur vie se trouvait dans le chaos.
Several stones had at different times been chosen, but under the pressure of immense weights they had crumbled to pieces.
Les diverses pierres qu'on avait essayées s'étaient effritées sous le poids auquel elles avaient été soumises.
Late in the Carolingian era, when imperial authority had crumbled, castles became the new seats of power of the feudal world.
A la fin de l'époque carolingienne, alors que l'autorité publique est démantelée, des châteaux marquent les nouveaux centres du pouvoir dans le monde féodal.
These are remarkable achievements for a country that is emerging from a situation of complete lawlessness and whose State institutions and infrastructure had crumbled.
Ce sont là des réalisations remarquables pour un pays qui sort d'une situation d'anarchie totale et dont les institutions et les infrastructures publiques s'étaient effondrées.
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