Disintegration
[dɪs,ɪntɪ'greɪʃ(ə)n] or [dɪs,ɪntə'greʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a loss (or serious disruption) of organization in some system; 'a disintegration of personality'.
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Definition
(n.) The process by which anything is disintegrated; the condition of anything which is disintegrated.
(n.) The wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc.
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Examples
- It was pure organic disintegration and pure mechanical organisation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was as if she HAD to return to this small, slow, central whirlpool of disintegration and dissolution: just give it a look. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The contest was close for a time, but at length the left of the enemy broke, and disintegration along the whole line soon followed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- And on them there seemed to float a film of disintegration, a sort of misery and sullenness, like oil on water. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Hunger may be partially allayed by sleep or by the use of narcotics, tobacco and alcohol, all of which tend to diminish the disintegration of tissues. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A little later, however, Sir William, always cautious and canny, began to discover the inherent defects of the primitive battery, as to disintegration, inefficiency, costliness, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Archer could hear Lawrence Lefferts, at that very hour, holding forth on the disintegration of society. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I have already instanced the case of the entire disintegration of a regiment whose colonel I met at Farmville. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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