disintegrate

Recorded since 1785, dis- +‎ integrate

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈɪntɪɡɹeɪt/

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• Hyphenation: dis‧in‧te‧grate

disintegrate (third-person singular simple present disintegrates, present participle disintegrating, simple past and past participle disintegrated)

1. (transitive) To undo the integrity of, break into parts.
   • 1784, Richard Kirwan, Elements of Mineralogy:

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

   1. (science fiction, transitive) To cause to break up into infinitesimal parts through the use of a disintegrator.
      • 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine‎:

        There is a Latvian gentleman named Theodore Nemor living at White Friars Mansions, Hampstead, who claims to have invented a machine of a most extraordinary character which is capable of disintegrating any object placed within its sphere of influence.

2. (intransitive) To fall apart, break up into parts.
   • 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 20:

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

• (transitive, to cause to break into parts) dismember, dissolve
• (intransitive, to break into one's parts) compost, decay, dissolve
• See also Thesaurus:destroy

• integrate

• reinstigated

disintegrate

1. inflection of disintegrare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

disintegrate f pl

1. feminine plural of disintegrato