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Disintegrate

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To undo the integrity of; to break into parts. transitive

    "Marlites […] are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years."

  2. 2
    break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity wordnet
  3. 3
    To undo the integrity of; to break into parts.; To cause to break up into infinitesimal parts through the use of a disintegrator. transitive

    "There is a Latvian gentleman named Theodore Nemor living at White Friars Mansions, Hampstead, who claims to have invented a machine of a most extraordinary character which is capable of disintegrating any object placed within its sphere of influence."

  4. 4
    lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current wordnet
  5. 5
    To fall apart; to break up into parts. intransitive

    "Hence they are eloquent, not of the present, disintegrating society and psyche, but of the unquenched source through which society is reborn."

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  1. 6
    cause to undergo fission or lose particles wordnet

Etymology

Recorded since 1785, from dis- + integrate.

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