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Disintegrate

Disintegrate Meaning & Definition
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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