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Meaning of 'disintegrate' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Disintegrate [ v. i.]
- To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates.
2 . Disintegrate [ v. t.]
- 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.

Meaning of 'disintegrate' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . disintegrate [ v]
Meaning (1):
- break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity
Example in sentence:
  • the group disintegrated after the leader died;
  • The material disintegrated
Meaning (2):
- lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current
Example in sentence:
  • the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process

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