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Disintegrate   /dɪsˈɪntəgrˌeɪt/   Listen
Disintegrate

verb
(past & past part. disintegrated; pres. part. disintegrating)
1.
Break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity.  "The group disintegrated after the leader died"
2.
Cause to undergo fission or lose particles.
3.
Lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current.  Synonyms: decay, decompose.






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"Disintegrate" Quotes from Famous Books



... think and rest my tired by suspended animation." For I had as much idea about rearing girls as I had on the subject of training young kangaroos. But it grew plainer to me every day my nearly ossified habits would have to disintegrate. Also I must learn to manipulate the role of ...
— The House of the Misty Star - A Romance of Youth and Hope and Love in Old Japan • Fannie Caldwell Macaulay

... jerkily and staring with glazed unseeing eyes, was working there with a cube of the glittering k-metal. In the open breech block of the tube was a heaped-up cone of dry soil, the material they would disintegrate in producing the blast of electronic forces. Blaine groaned as his friend called for the equivalent of a milligram of radium. Though his voice was listless and his movements uncertain, Tommy knew what he was doing ...
— The Copper-Clad World • Harl Vincent

... to justify the free use of material. When this is the case, extreme fineness of all the stone is undesirable. There is the added cost due to such fineness and no gain if the finer portion is sufficient to correct the acidity, and the coarser particles disintegrate as rapidly as needed in ...
— Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement • Alva Agee

... interwoven with this anglicising tendency, which was also, by the bye, a Christianising tendency, was a strong disposition, derived from the Rousseau strand, to leave other peoples alone, to facilitate even the separation and autonomy of detached portions of our own peoples, to disintegrate finally into perfect, because lawless, individuals. The official exposition of British "Liberalism" to-day still wriggles unstably because of these conflicting constituents, but on the whole the Whig strand now ...
— A Modern Utopia • H. G. Wells

... with the exception of rice, and the various grain meals, require prolonged cooking with gentle and continuous heat, in order to so disintegrate their tissues and change their starch into dextrine as to render them easy of digestion. Even the so-called "steam-cooked" grains, advertised to be ready for use in five or ten minutes, require a much ...
— Science in the Kitchen. • Mrs. E. E. Kellogg

... passed; the bears were beginning to lose their winter coats; our party began to disintegrate. My brother and the Judge were compelled to return to Detroit. A week or so later Ned Frost and the cook were scheduled to take out another party of hunters from Cody and prepared to leave us. Young and I were determined to stick it out until ...
— Hunting with the Bow and Arrow • Saxton Pope

... dark, Davilof?" she asked in a practical tone of voice calculated to disintegrate any possible fabric of romance ...
— The Lamp of Fate • Margaret Pedler

... power—social and military—she was ever induced partially to loosen her grip. To such men as Savonarola, Luther and Erasmus, do we owe our freedom. These men cared more for truth than for power, and their influence was to disintegrate the ankylosis of custom and make men think. And a thought is mental dynamite. No wonder the Church has always feared and ...
— Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers • Elbert Hubbard

... the argument: promote your deserving men, but do not be afraid to hire a keen outsider; he helps everybody, even the kickers, for if you disintegrate and go down in defeat, the kickers will have to skirmish around for new jobs anyway. Isn't ...
— Love, Life & Work • Elbert Hubbard



Words linked to "Disintegrate" :   disintegrative, digest, pulverize, pulverise, run, break apart, disintegration, powder, alter, modify, crash, decay, dissolve, change, physics, unravel, integrate, fall apart, powderize, powderise, natural philosophy, crumble, change integrity, break up, decompose



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