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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To become reduced to components, fragments, or particles.
  2. v. To lose cohesion or unity: pressures that cause families to disintegrate
  3. v. Physics & Chemistry To decompose, decay, or undergo a nuclear transformation.
  4. v. To cause to disintegrate. See Synonyms at decay.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To separate into component parts; reduce to fragments; break up or destroy the cohesion of: as, Tocks are disintegrated by frost and rain.
  2. To break up; separate into its component parts.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To undo the integrity of, break into parts.
  2. v. intransitive To fall apart, break up into one's parts.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. 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. To decompose into integrant parts.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current
  2. v. break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity
  3. v. cause to undergo fission or lose particles

Etymologies

  1. Recorded since 1785, dis- +‎ integrate (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “He created the Cabinet positions of Energy and Education, yet saw his one term disintegrate due to lack of experience.”

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  • “The best way to cause a country to disintegrate is to create unrest in all spheres and in Pakistan's case this has already happened, violence in the name of religion, sect, province and class along with an aid dependent economy and power and food shortages.”

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  • “The point being, it's firmly established that the Iraqi army didn't just "disintegrate," but rather was disbanded by the US.”

    09/17/2007

  • “And no political party should let itself sort of just kind of disintegrate into petty bickering and small-minded politics.”

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  • “Commonwealth would "disintegrate" if it attempts to sanction”

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  • “California, would fall almost without resistance, that San Francisco must surrender in a fortnight to a Japanese investment, that in three or four months the war would be over, and our republic, unable to regain what it had heedlessly neglected to protect sufficiently, would then "disintegrate," until perhaps some Caesar should arise to weld us again into a nation.”

    Memories and Studies

  • “Upper class advocacy groups using identity politics claim that a federal republic will "disintegrate" Nepal, missing the way enfranchisement brings a genuine patriotism that can't be faked, or glossed over by rulers speaking in the name of all.”

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  • “Eurozone may 'disintegrate' after crisis, Paul Volcker warns”

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  • “Bloomberg: Volcker says the debt crisis may cause Europe to "disintegrate”

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  • “A damning report by the Psychiatric Nurses 'Association has claimed the service is being allowed to "disintegrate" with no regard for quality of care or safety.”

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synonyms (12)

Words with the same meaning

  1. decompose
  2. resolve
  1. dissolve
  2. analyze
  1. crumble
  2. crumb
  1. decay
  2. weather
  1. disgregate
  2. diffuse
  1. dismember
  2. compost

antonyms (1)

Words with the opposite meaning

  1. composer

hypernyms (4)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. change integrity
  1. change
  1. modify
  1. alter

rhymes (2)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. integrate
  1. reintegrate

reverse dictionary (24)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. digest
  2. deintegrate
  3. disintegrant
  4. cataract-needle
  1. molder
  2. disintegrative
  3. decompose
  4. disintegrate
  1. indissoluble
  2. weather
  3. crumble
  4. deteriorate
  1. decay
  2. dissolve
  3. slake
  4. spleen
  1. half-life
  2. macerate
  3. break
  4. corrode
  1. crush
  2. disband
  3. rack
  4. resolve

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