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[ verb ] break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity

Examples

"The material disintegrated" "the group disintegrated after the leader died"

Used in print

(Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)

If he sees the heroic in a Sartoris or a Sutpen , he sees also - and he shows - the blind and the mean , and he sees the Compson family disintegrating from within .

2
[ verb ] cause to undergo fission or lose particles

Related terms

change physics

3
[ verb ] lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current

Synonyms

decay decompose

Examples

"the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process"

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