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Disintegrate
| Disintegrate Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Disintegrate?
[v] break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity; "The material disintegrated"; "the group disintegrated after the leader died"
[v] lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current; as of particles in nuclear fission
[v] cause to undergo fission or lose particles, in physics
Synonyms | Synonyms for Disintegrate: decay |
decompose
Related Terms | Find terms related to Disintegrate: ablate |
abrade |
atomize |
beat |
bite the dust |
blow to pieces |
blow up |
brain |
bray |
break |
break down |
break open |
break to pieces |
break up |
brecciate |
bring down |
burn to death |
burst |
canker |
carry away |
cave in |
cleave |
collapse |
come apart |
come off |
come to dust |
come undone |
come unstuck |
comminute |
conk out |
consume |
contriturate |
corrode |
corrupt |
crack |
crack up |
crumb |
crumble |
crumble into dust |
crumble to dust |
crush |
cut down |
cut to pieces |
deactivate |
deal a deathblow |
debrief |
decay |
decline |
decompose |
degenerate |
deliquesce |
demob |
demobilize |
demolish |
descend |
detach |
disassemble |
disband |
discharge |
disimprove |
disjoin |
dismantle |
dismiss |
disorganize |
disperse |
dissipate |
dissolve |
dissolve into chaos |
droop |
drop |
effloresce |
erode |
fade |
fail |
faint |
fall |
fall into decay |
fall off |
fall to dust |
fall to pieces |
fell |
fester |
fission |
fissure |
fizzle out |
flag |
flour |
fly apart |
fracture |
frag |
fragment |
gangrene |
get loose |
give away |
give out |
give the quietus |
give way |
go bad |
go downhill |
go separate ways |
go soft |
go to pieces |
grain |
granulate |
granulize |
grate |
grind |
grind to powder |
gun down |
hit the skids |
incinerate |
jugulate |
languish |
lapidate |
lay low |
let go |
levigate |
make mincemeat of |
mash |
mildew |
mill |
mold |
molder |
mortify |
moulder |
muster out |
necrose |
part |
part company |
peel off |
peg out |
pestle |
peter out |
pick to pieces |
pine |
pistol |
poleax |
poop out |
pound |
powder |
pull in pieces |
pull to pieces |
pulverize |
putrefy |
putresce |
rankle |
reduce to powder |
reduce to rubble |
release |
rend |
retrograde |
riddle |
rot |
rupture |
scatter |
scrunch |
separate |
shard |
shatter |
shoot |
shoot down |
shoot to death |
shotgun |
shred |
silence |
sink |
slacken |
smash |
snap |
sphacelate |
split |
split up |
spoil |
spring a leak |
spring apart |
squash |
stab to death |
start |
stone |
stone to death |
strike dead |
sunder |
suppurate |
taint |
take apart |
tear apart |
tear to pieces |
tear to shreds |
tear to tatters |
topple |
total |
triturate |
tumble |
turn |
unbuild |
undo |
unmake |
unravel |
untune |
vaporize |
waste away |
weaken |
wear away |
wear thin |
wilt |
worsen |
wrack up |
wreck |
yield
See Also | alter |
break apart |
break up |
change |
change integrity |
crash |
crumble |
dissolve |
fall apart |
powderise |
powderize |
pulverise |
pulverize |
run |
unravel
Disintegrate In Webster's Dictionary
\Dis*in"te*grate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Disintegrated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disintegrating}.] [L. dis-
+ integratus, p. p. of integrare to renew, repair, fr.
integer entire, whole. See {Integer}.]
To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or
to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a
rock, by blows of a hammer, frost, rain, and other mechanical
or atmospheric influences.
Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the
atmosphere, at least in six years. --Kirwan.
\Dis*in"te*grate\, v. i.
To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly
disintegrates.
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