English to English
disintegrate
(d/I/s'/I/nt/@/,gr/eI/t
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verb (v)
- break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity(verb.change)Example:
The material disintegrated.
The group disintegrated after the leader died.
source: wordnet30 - cause to undergo fission or lose particles(verb.change)source: wordnet30
- 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.(verb)source: webster1913
- To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates.(verb)source: webster1913