'Disintegrate' definitions:
Definition of 'disintegrate'
(from WordNet)
verb
Break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity; "The material disintegrated"; "the group disintegrated after the leader died" [ant: incorporate, integrate]
verb
Cause to undergo fission or lose particles
verb
Definition of 'Disintegrate'
From: GCIDE
- Disintegrate \Dis*in"te*grate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disintegrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Disintegrating.] [L. dis- + integratus, p. p. of integrare to renew, repair, fr. integer entire, whole. See Integer.] 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. [1913 Webster]
- Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years. --Kirwan. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Disintegrate'
From: GCIDE
- Disintegrate \Dis*in"te*grate\, v. i. To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'disintegrate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ablate,
- abrade,
- atomize,
- beat,
- bite the dust,
- blow to pieces,
- blow up,
- brain,
- bray,
- break,
- break down,
- break open,
- break to pieces,
- break up,
- brecciate,
- bring down,
- burn to death,
- burst,
- canker,
- carry away,
- cave in,
- cleave,
- collapse,
- come apart,
- come off,
- come to dust,
- come undone,
- come unstuck,
- comminute,
- conk out,
- consume,
- contriturate,
- corrode,
- corrupt,
- crack,
- crack up,
- crumb,
- crumble,
- crumble into dust,
- crumble to dust,
- crush,
- cut down,
- cut to pieces,
- deactivate,
- deal a deathblow,
- debrief,
- decay,
- decline,
- decompose,
- degenerate,
- deliquesce,
- demob,
- demobilize,
- demolish,
- descend,
- detach,
- disassemble,
- disband,
- discharge,
- disimprove,
- disjoin,
- dismantle,
- dismiss,
- disorganize,
- disperse,
- dissipate,
- dissolve,
- dissolve into chaos,
- droop,
- drop,
- effloresce,
- erode,
- fade,
- fail,
- faint,
- fall,
- fall into decay,
- fall off,
- fall to dust,
- fall to pieces,
- fell,
- fester,
- fission,
- fissure,
- fizzle out,
- flag,
- flour,
- fly apart,
- fracture,
- frag,
- fragment,
- gangrene,
- get loose,
- give away,
- give out,
- give the quietus,
- give way,
- go bad,
- go downhill,
- go separate ways,
- go soft,
- go to pieces,
- grain,
- granulate,
- granulize,
- grate,
- grind,
- grind to powder,
- gun down,
- hit the skids,
- incinerate,
- jugulate,
- languish,
- lapidate,
- lay low,
- let go,
- levigate,
- make mincemeat of,
- mash,
- mildew,
- mill,
- mold,
- molder,
- mortify,
- moulder,
- muster out,
- necrose,
- part,
- part company,
- peel off,
- peg out,
- pestle,
- peter out,
- pick to pieces,
- pine,
- pistol,
- poleax,
- poop out,
- pound,
- powder,
- pull in pieces,
- pull to pieces,
- pulverize,
- putrefy,
- putresce,
- rankle,
- reduce to powder,
- reduce to rubble,
- release,
- rend,
- retrograde,
- riddle,
- rot,
- rupture,
- scatter,
- scrunch,
- separate,
- shard,
- shatter,
- shoot,
- shoot down,
- shoot to death,
- shotgun,
- shred,
- silence,
- sink,
- slacken,
- smash,
- snap,
- sphacelate,
- split,
- split up,
- spoil,
- spring a leak,
- spring apart,
- squash,
- stab to death,
- start,
- stone,
- stone to death,
- strike dead,
- sunder,
- suppurate,
- taint,
- take apart,
- tear apart,
- tear to pieces,
- tear to shreds,
- tear to tatters,
- topple,
- total,
- triturate,
- tumble,
- turn,
- unbuild,
- undo,
- unmake,
- unravel,
- untune,
- vaporize,
- waste away,
- weaken,
- wear away,
- wear thin,
- wilt,
- worsen,
- wrack up,
- wreck,
- yield