Definitions of disintegrate [ɪsˈɪn təˌgreɪt]

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Definition of 'disintegrate'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.i.) disintegrate
to separate into parts or lose intactness; break up; deteriorate.

2.  disintegrate
Physics.

3.  disintegrate
to decay.

4.  disintegrate
(of a nucleus) to change into one or more different nuclei after being bombarded by high-energy particles, as gamma rays.

5. (v.t.) disintegrate
to reduce to fragments or parts; break up or destroy the cohesion of.

Etymology: (1790–1800)

Definition of 'disintegrate'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) disintegrate
break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity
"The material disintegrated"; "the group disintegrated after the leader died"

2. (verb) disintegrate
cause to undergo fission or lose particles

3. (verb) disintegrate, decay, decompose
lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current
"the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process"

Definition of 'disintegrate'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) disintegrate
to gradually break into small pieces; = fall apart
The cloth disintegrated over time.

2. disintegrate
to become worse; = deteriorate
a situation that could disintegrate into civil war; the disintegration of Greenland's glaciers; the disintegration of the socialist party

Definition of 'disintegrate'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) disintegrate
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

2. (verb) disintegrate
to decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates

Translation of 'disintegrate'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to (cause to) fall to pieces The paper bag was so wet that the bottom disintegrated and all the groceries fell out.
Afrikaans: disintegreer, oplos	Arabic: يُفَكِّك، يُحَطِّم	Bulgarian: раздробявам
Brazilian: desintegrar	Czech: rozpadnout se	German: auflösen
Danish: falde fra hinanden; gå i	Greek: διαλύω, διαλύομαι	Spanish: desintegrar
Estonian: laiali lagunema, lagundam	Farsi: متلاشی شدن؛ تکه تکه شدن	Finnish: hajota
French: (se) désintégrer/désagrég	Hebrew: לְפוֹרֵר	Hindi: अलग-अलग करना
Croatian: raspasti se	Hungarian: felbomlik, szétesik	Indonesian: hancur
Icelandic: tærast, eyðast	Italian: disintegrare, disintegrar	Japanese: ばらばらにする
Korean: 분해되다, 붕괴되다	Lithuanian: suirti, suardyti	Latvian: sadalīt []; sadalīties; s
Malay: hancur	Dutch: uiteenvallen	Norwegian: falle fra hverandre, gå i
Polish: rozpadać się, powodować r	Persian: متلاشی شدن؛ تکه تکه شدن	Pashto: شوپشو كول، تيت وپرك كول،
Portuguese: desintegrar	Romanian: a (se) dezintegra; a (se)	Russian: распадаться (на части)
Slovak: rozpadnúť sa	Slovenian: razpadati	Serbian: raspasti se
Swedish: lösa[s] upp, sönderdela[s	Thai: แตกเป็นชิ้น ๆ	Turkish: parçala(n)mak
Taiwanese: 解體，使解體	Ukrainian: розкладати(ся); подрібнюв	Urdu: ٹکڑے ٹکڑے یا اجزا میں تقس
Vietnamese: tan rã	Chinese: 使分裂
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