DISINTEGRATE

Pronunciation (US):

• DISINTEGRATE (verb)
  The verb DISINTEGRATE has 3 senses:

1. break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity
2. cause to undergo fission or lose particles
3. lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current

  Familiarity information: DISINTEGRATE used as a verb is uncommon.

• DISINTEGRATE (verb)

Meaning:

Break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context examples:

The material disintegrated / the group disintegrated after the leader died

Hypernyms (to "disintegrate" is one way to...):

change integrity (change in physical make-up)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disintegrate"):

powder; powderise; powderize; pulverise; pulverize (make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust)

powderise; powderize; pulverise; pulverize (become powder or dust)

run; unravel (become undone)

crumble; fall apart (break or fall apart into fragments)

digest (soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture)

dissolve (pass into a solution)

break apart; break up; crash (break violently or noisily; smash)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something ----s something

Antonym:

integrate (make into a whole or make part of a whole)

Meaning:

Cause to undergo fission or lose particles

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "disintegrate" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physical science; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Meaning:

Lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

decay; decompose; disintegrate

Context example:

the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process

Hypernyms (to "disintegrate" is one way to...):

change integrity (change in physical make-up)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physical science; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s