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Disintegrated

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.

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disintegrated
  1. That has undergone disintegration v

  2. (en-past of: disintegrate)

Usage examples of "disintegrated".

Then the silence in the amphitheater was broken only by the faint hiss of the forcescreen as it disintegrated insects, a comforting noise.

Braddon picked up the box, carelessly, and Tia winced as the first lump inside visibly disintegrated more.

Baila's analysis suggested that, either the prey ship, which he knew had been ancient, had disintegrated under the stress of redlining or the station had destroyed it.

Pilau tried to catch a strand, but it disintegrated, leaving no trace in her grubby fingers.

K'vin looked below and saw the unmistakable arrow of golden bodies in their low-level position, the flame-throwers which the queen riders used spouting here and there as they disintegrated stray strands escaping the higher ranks.

Those trees which had survived the firestorm disintegrated, shredded instantly by the rabid aerial swarm.

It must be a prodigious swarm gliding in from interplanetary space, the remains of some burnt-out comet that had disintegrated centuries ago.

They disintegrated instantly, but hypervelocity fragments kept coming.

For the first couple of kilometres the image was sharp and reasonably clear, below that it slowly disintegrated until at seven kilometres there was nothing but a sheet of electronic slush.

Their stolen bodies disintegrated before the nerve impulses could reach the brain.

Her body disintegrated into splinters of vivid copper light which trailed contrails of black smoke all the way down to the resplendent desert far below.

The windows, surrounding panels, stress rods, and secondary structural girders disintegrated into an avalanche of scything chips as the bullets savaged them.

Frozen, ice-cloaked tables and chairs disintegrated into billowing clouds of glossy silvery fragments.

Foil sheets had either been torn free or disintegrated, allowing sharp beams of intense red light to steal through the cluttered webs.

The plaza shook violently as the tower disintegrated, showering the area with smoking fragments of metal and burning vegetation.