disintegrate

Were you to cook Swiss chard fully intact, without separating the stems and leaves, the leaf would disintegrate by the time the stems were tender.

Part of her leg, she said, started to “disintegrate.”

Policies that focus on moving individuals rather than communities carry a risk, potentially disintegrating social networks that help sustain people later in life.

But we also can’t ignore the precarious nature of the times, and the reality that our checks and balances are disintegrating.

Had he accepted Britain's conditions for a postponement, his government would have disintegrated.