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disintegrate

verb

1 disintegrate

Break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity.

Roget 142: cease, discontinue, desist, stay, halt; break off, leave off; hold, stop, pull up, stop short; stick, hang fire; halt; ... show more

Roget 330: come to dust; be disintegrated, be reduced to powder &c.. reduce to powder, grind to powder; pulverize, comminute, granulate, triturate, levigate; scrape, file, abrade, ... show more

Roget 44: be disjoined &c.; come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces; peel off; get loose.    disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair; ... show more

Dutch: ontbinden, desintegreren

2 disintegrate

Cause to undergo fission or lose particles.

3 disintegrate

Lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current:
— The particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process.

synonyms: decay, decompose.

Dutch: verloederen


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 ... show more.

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