disintegrate

Definition

To undo the integrity of; to break into parts.

Etymology

Recorded since 1785, from dis- + integrate.

Example Sentences

• "Marlites […] are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years."
• "There is a Latvian gentleman named Theodore Nemor living at White Friars Mansions, Hampstead, who claims to have invented a machine of a most extraordinary character which is capable of disintegrating any object placed within its sphere of influence."
• "Hence they are eloquent, not of the present, disintegrating society and psyche, but of the unquenched source through which society is reborn."