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Definitions for: 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
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.
Synonyms: decay, decompose
Antonyms: incorporate, integrate
See Also: alter, break apart, break up, change, change integrity, crash, crumble, dissolve, fall apart, powderise, powderize, pulverise, pulverize, run, unravel
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