Crossword clues for disintegrate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the
atmosphere, at least in six years.
--Kirwan.
Disintegrate \Dis*in"te*grate\, v. i. To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To undo the integrity of, break into parts. 2 (context intransitive English) To fall apart, break up into parts.
WordNet
v. break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity; "The material disintegrated"; "the group disintegrated after the leader died" [ant: integrate]
cause to undergo fission or lose particles
lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current; "the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process" [syn: decay, decompose]
Wikipedia
Disintegrate EP is the first release from the metal band Eyes of Fire on Century Media in 2003. The complete EP including inserts and artwork was made available as a free download from Century Media's website.
Disintegrate is the third and final studio album by Norwegian blackened death metal band Zyklon. It was released on 15 May 2006. Clocking at 45:06, Disintegrate is Zyklon's longest album and was recorded from November to December 2005 at the "Akkerhaugen Lydstudio", in Norway.
Usage examples of "disintegrate".
It was completely smothered under the Anguilla grass now, its disintegrating surface long since sealed over by the root mat.
These men cared more for truth than for power, and their influence was to disintegrate the ankylosis of custom and make men think.
As I drew near, I noticed that part of the bark had been stripped away, or perhaps had disintegrated, from this hut, so that I could stand outside and look through open basketwork to the interior.
The only reason the Soviet Union occupied the eastern half of Poland was that the Polish state was internally bankrupt, the government had disintegrated, and the Ukrainians and Belorussians in Poland, cousins to their Soviet kindred, were left to the mercy of fate.
Under certain circumstances, the membrane surrounding blepharisma disintegrates and comes independently loose, like a cast-off shell, leaving the creature a transient albino.
When under-fired, marl bricks are very liable to disintegrate under the action of the weather, and great care must be exercised in burning them at a sufficiently high temperature.
The crosstie the boy had stepped on had given way almost entirely and flopped downward lazily, swinging easily on a disintegrating rivet, like a shutter on a haunted window.
Finally, his skeleton disintegrated in a white flash, leaving nothing behind except a few crusts of black cinder.
And that safety was illusory for the racking jars of the spatial see-saw might disintegrate La Cucaracha in seconds.
If this were done, it was argued, the Bolshevik regime itself might collapse and the Red Army disintegrate, as the Czarist armies had done in 1917.
The front door completely disintegrated, and the apartment itself seemed to expand as white noise deafened anyone unfortunate enough to be in there.
Over a few weeks, the harsh ultraviolet from the unshielded Martian sun would slowly chew away the covering, and once the fluoropolymer sheath was gone, the cable would disintegrate quickly.
To protect themselves against lawlessness, the entire community at The Forks of Cypress was united against the world, although that unity was as temporary as the weather, and would disintegrate at the first positive sign of what the future might be.
Although vital operations build up these structures, yet the animal and nervous functions are continually disintegrating, or wasting, them.
Fourth Army of General Chang Fa-kwei, resumed independence and went back home to Kwangtung, the regime in ruined and terror-stricken Hankow disintegrated and the united front of the revolution came to an end.