Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To undo the integrity of; to break into parts.
2. (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.

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.

The left outer wing structure impacted the ground first; the No. 1 engine, and then the left main landing gear, followed immediately. The aircraft disintegrated, scattering wreckage over an area approximately 1,600 feet long and 300 feet wide. No complete circumferential cross-section remained of the passenger compartment of the fuselage, which was broken into four main sections and numerous small pieces. The entire left wing and left stabilizer were demolished. No evidence of in-flight structural failure, fire, or explosion was found.

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.

Chelica, who for years fought depression, especially sought to befriend people with troubles of their own, among them a man whose attire has varied from women’s wear to a kaffiya and Roman sandals and who often carries a boom box while engaging in violent monologues that sometimes disintegrate into curses at pedestrians.

Word Forms

• disintegrates
• disintegrating
• disintegrated

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