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Definition of Disintegrates
1. disintegrate [v] - See also: disintegrate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disintegrates
Literary usage of Disintegrates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The positive light, on the other hand, gradually draws inwards, till at last it
is only a star on the end of the electrode, which now disintegrates, ..."
2. Agriculture in Some of Its Relations with Chemistry by Frank Humphreys Storer (1897)
"Composting disintegrates Vegetable-Matter. Mention has already been made of the
fact that a good part of the constituents of straw remain bound up, ..."
3. Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and by Abraham Hayward (1873)
"... everybody, disintegrates everything. Each man is the head of his own family;
no man can be the bead of the family of his ancestors. ..."
4. Scheyichbi and the Strand: Or, Early Days Along the Delaware ; with an by Edward Smith Wheeler (1876)
"Exposure to the heat of the sun and the effects of cold and frost disintegrates
the rocks and subjects them to the effect of drift- creating forces. ..."
5. Sketch of the Geology and Mineralogy of New-London and Windham Counties, in by William Williams Mather (1834)
"A tract of this rock has already been ae- scribed, which disintegrates rapidly,
and this is not adapted to use, as a building material. ..."
6. General Pathology; from the 11th Rev. German Ed. by Ernst Ziegler, Douglas Symmers (1918)
""With these changes the height of the process is reached ; the greater part of
the tissue disintegrates and ulcerates, or is absorbed after disintegration. ..."
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