disintegrate
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disintegrate
- /dɪsˈɪntɪɡɹeɪt/ UK
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Recorded since 1785, from dis- + integrate.
verb disintegrates · disintegrating · disintegrated
- To undo the integrity of; to break into parts. Marlites […] are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years.
- To cause to break up into infinitesimal parts through the use of a disintegrator. 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.
- To fall apart; to break up into parts. Hence they are eloquent, not of the present, disintegrating society and psyche, but of the unquenched source through which society is reborn.
