Disintegrate

[dɪs'ɪntɪgreɪt] or [dɪs'ɪntɪɡret]

Definition

(verb.) break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity; 'The material disintegrated'; 'the group disintegrated after the leader died'.

(verb.) lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current; 'the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process'.

(verb.) cause to undergo fission or lose particles.

Edited by Bridget--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

(v. i.) To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates.

Edited by Caleb

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Crumble, reduce to fragments, break to pieces.

Checker: Nanette

Definition

v.t. to separate into integrant parts: to break up.—adjs. Disin′tegrable Disin′tegrative.—ns. Disintegrā′tion; Disin′tegrator a machine for crushing or pulverising oil-cake mineral ores &c.

Checked by Angelique