Hypertext Webster Gateway: "disintegrate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Disintegrate \Dis*in"te*grate\, v. i.
To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly
disintegrates.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
disintegrate
v 1: break into parts or components; "The material disintegrated"
[ant: {integrate}]
2: lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current; of
particles [syn: {decay}, {decompose}]
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