Thesaurus: disintegrate

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1. 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.
2. v. i. To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates.
3. v. break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity
4. v. cause to undergo fission or lose particles
5. v. lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current
6. 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. Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years. Kirwan. To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates.
7. To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or topowder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blowsof a hammer, frost, rain, and other mechanical or atmosphericinfluences.Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, atleast in six years. Kirwan.
8. v:100 v. break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity v. cause to undergo fission or lose particles v. lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current