disintegrate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: disintegrate	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
disintegrate v break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity; "The material disintegrated"; "the group disintegrated after the leader died" Antonym(s): incorporate, integrate cause to undergo fission or lose particles lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current; "the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process" Synonym(s): disintegrate, decay, decompose
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Disintegrate \Disin"tegrate\, 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Disintegrate \Disin"tegrate\, v. i. To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates.