disintegrate
pronunciation
How to pronounce disintegrate in British English:
UK [dɪsˈɪntɪɡreɪt]
How to pronounce disintegrate in American English:
US [dɪsˈɪntɪɡreɪt]
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- Verb:
- break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity
- cause to undergo fission or lose particles
- lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current
Word Origin
- disintegrate (v.)
- 1796, from dis- "do the opposite of" + integrate (v.). Related: Disintegrated; disintegrating.
Example
- 1. We have three empires that disintegrate within weeks of each other .
- 2. Discovery relies on observing the particles into which higgs bosons disintegrate , rather than detecting them directly .
- 3. The point is not to preserve the body , rather to let it disintegrate .
- 4. No one was predicting the gaddafi regime would suddenly disintegrate into violence and lunacy .
- 5. By 180 ad , the roman empire began to disintegrate .