Disintegrate Definition

dĭs-ĭntĭ-grāt
disintegrated, disintegrates, disintegrating
verb
disintegrated, disintegrates, disintegrating
To separate into parts or fragments; break up; disunite.
Webster's New World
To lose cohesion or unity.
Pressures that cause families to disintegrate.
American Heritage
To undergo or cause to undergo a nuclear transformation as a result of radioactive decay or a nuclear reaction.
Webster's New World
To cause to disintegrate.
American Heritage
(intransitive) To fall apart, break up into parts.
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Origin of Disintegrate

  • Recorded since 1785, dis- +‎ integrate

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Disintegrate Sentence Examples

  • The Others had managed to disintegrate his condo without a hint of damage elsewhere.

  • I didn't expect the critical infrastructure to disintegrate so fast.

  • The antipodal cells aid more or less in the process of nutrition of the developing embryo, and may undergo multiplication, though they ultimately disintegrate, as do also the synergidae.

  • That the division of labour, which may seem to disintegrate the calling of the physician, really unites it, is well seen in the clinical laboratories which were initiated in the later 19th century, and which are destined to a great future.

  • Though no great scholar or writer, he was a powerful force in the England of his day, and helped materially to disintegrate the medieval conditions still obtaining, and to introduce the humanist movement.

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Words Starting With

DDIDIS

Words Ending With

ETEATE

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Words Starting With D and Ending With E

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12 Letter Words12 Letter Words Starting With D12 Letter Words Ending With E