dissolve

Such tyranny occurs when the political center dissolves and gives way to the extremes.

Trump is dissolving 80 years of the greatest military alliance the world has ever known, and aligning America instead with one of the world’s most brutal dictators.

The sham agencies, which paid no tax, existed for short periods before being dissolved and rebranded.

He said "all groups must lay their arms and the PKK must dissolve itself", adding that his movement was formed primarily because "the channels of democratic politics were closed".

Strangely enough, turning death into an invisible force as opposed to some night stalker with a protean face dissolved some of my usual apprehension.