v. t. | 1. | 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. |
v. i. | 1. | To decompose into integrant parts; |
Verb | 1. | disintegrate - break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity; "The material disintegrated"; "the group disintegrated after the leader died" Antonyms: incorporate, integrate - make into a whole or make part of a whole; "She incorporated his suggestions into her proposal" |
2. | disintegrate - cause to undergo fission or lose particles | |
3. | disintegrate - lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current; "the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process" |