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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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of disintegrate English)
Usage examples of "disintegrating".
I gave him the insulating paint that protects his own ships and weapons from it, and now some day I shall give him something else – something that will be as revolutionary in the art of war as the disintegrating ray itself.
It will, therefore, be necessary for you to proceed to the vicinity of Tjanath and later to Helium and for your own protection you will use the blue paint of Jahar upon your ship, for you may never be certain unless you are on the ground at the time that you have destroyed all of the navy of Jahar, or all of their disintegrating ray rifles.
In turrets, forward, and aft were mounted two disintegrating ray rifles.
The entire outside of the ship was first painted the ghastly blue that would protect it from the disintegrating ray rifles of Jahar, while over this was spread a coating of the compound of invisibility.
I looked to the ammunition of the disintegrating ray rifles and rearranged it to suit my own ideas.
The turret, crudely and hastily constructed though it had been, responded to my touch and an instant later my sight covered the approaching patrol vessel, and through the tiny opening provided for the sight I witnessed the effect of my first shot with Phor Taks disintegrating ray rifle.
Then they wanted to know all about the Jhama, the compound of invisibility and the disintegrating ray with which I had dissolved the bars from their prison window.
Approaching one of them quite closely I saw that it carried four disintegrating ray rifles, two mounted forward and two aft.
With but a fraction of the ships I had already seen I would guarantee to lay waste all of Barsoom, provided my ships were armed with disintegrating ray rifles, and I felt sure that I had seen but a pitiful fraction of Tul Axtar's vast armament.
The best that I could hope, had the fleet already arrived, was that an encounter with the disintegrating ray rifles of the first line might have proved sufficient warning to turn the balance of the fleet back.
Temporarily, at least, the disintegrating ray rifles had failed, but that they would succeed I knew if a single ship could get through the Heliumetic line, where among the great battleships she could destroy a dozen in the space of a few minutes.
Again and again were we perilously close to the line of fire of the Jaharian disintegrating ray rifles.
And now if you will give me three men and direct the fire of your fleet away from the Jaharian ships on the south of their line, I will agree to have twenty ships for you in an hour – ships protected by the blue of Jahar in which you may face their disintegrating ray rifles with impunity.
Fifty feet from him Phor Tak was standing behind a bench upon which was mounted a disintegrating ray rifle, aimed full at Tul Axtar.
He vanished as though turned to thin air by his own disintegrating rays, but I knew what had happened.