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Definition of Disintegrate
1. Verb. Break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity. "The group disintegrated after the leader died"
Specialized synonyms: Powder, Powderise, Powderize, Pulverise, Pulverize, Powderise, Powderize, Pulverise, Pulverize, Run, Unravel, Crumble, Fall Apart, Digest, Dissolve, Break Apart, Break Up, Crash
Derivative terms: Disintegration, Disintegration, Disintegrative
Antonyms: Integrate
2. Verb. Cause to undergo fission or lose particles.
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Related verbs: Decay, Decompose
Derivative terms: Disintegration, Disintegrative
3. Verb. Lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current. "The particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process"
Category relationships: Natural Philosophy, Physics
Generic synonyms: Change Integrity
Derivative terms: Decay, Decay, Disintegration
Definition of Disintegrate
1. v. t. 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.
2. v. i. To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates.
Definition of Disintegrate
1. Verb. (transitive) To undo the integrity of, break into parts. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To fall apart, break up into one's parts. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disintegrate
1. [v -GRATED, -GRATING, -GRATES]
Medical Definition of Disintegrate
1. 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) Origin: L. Dis- + integratus, p. P. Of integrare to renew, repair, fr. Integer entire, whole. See Integer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disintegrate
Literary usage of Disintegrate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Supplementary Volume[s]. by John Lawson Stoddard (1901)
"Then this, too, will disintegrate, and chaos may again claim every THE MIDDLE LAKE,
... disintegrate ..."
2. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1901)
"Then this, too, will disintegrate, and chaos may again claim every THK MIDDLE
LAKE, KILLARNEY. grain and crystal of the stone. But in the universe there is ..."
3. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the by John Lawson Stoddard (1901)
"Then this, too, will disintegrate, and chaos may again claim every THK MIDDLE LAKE,
... disintegrate ..."
4. A Text-book of Pharmacology and Therapeutics by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1899)
"... and intense icterus appears from the t'ur- mation of excess of bile pigment
from the haemoglobin of the disintegrate«! corpuscles. ..."
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