Disintegrate

Quick meaning: Disintegrate is a verb meaning (transitive) To undo the integrity of; to break into parts.

Meaning

(transitive) To undo the integrity of; to break into parts.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To fall apart; to break up into parts.

Example Sentences

Marlites […] are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years.

Hence they are eloquent, not of the present, disintegrating society and psyche, but of the unquenched source through which society is reborn.

When people can no longer disagree intelligibly, a society disintegrates; where they need interpreters, they cannot either unite or emerge from conflict into unbelittling compromise.

But Schneider has wantonly misstaged Lucky's monologue: instead of a recitation by rote of a travestied history of Western philosophy and religion that gradually disintegrates into chaos, we get a choppy set of starts and stops, as of a jalopy that cannot get into proper gear.

Word Forms

• disintegrates
• disintegrating
• disintegrated

Synonyms for disintegrate

Depending on context, synonyms include dismember, dissolve, compost, decay, decompose.

Antonyms for disintegrate

Common opposites include integrate, incorporate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include decompose, decay, crumble, collapse, dismantle, dissolve.

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