unraveling

His sanity is slowly unraveling, like the claustrophobic narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart.

The short version is that political, cultural, and even economic power has been decentralizing and unraveling for a long time.

It is not surprising that these images should be showing up during a time of unraveling of job security.

Both Eternal Sunshine and Mood Indigo concern a relationship unraveling.

The official Malaysian account of the last contacts made to and received by Flight MH370 is unraveling.

To prevent the burlap from unraveling, turn the edges under before tacking them down.

Do we not merely see that it is so, and turn aside from the great mystery in despair of ever unraveling it?

Piece-dyed fabrics may be distinguished from yarn-dyed fabrics by unraveling threads of each kind.

It flashed upon young Preston that the keen-witted youth was unraveling the plan he had held in mind from the first.

Or, perhaps, we begin to ponder still deeper, we feel the necessity of "unraveling life's beginning."