disintegrate

verb

1. break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity

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   Examples

   The material disintegrated.

   The group disintegrated after the leader died.

   Antonyms incorporate integrate

   Source: WordNet 3.0

2. cause to undergo fission or lose particles

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   Source: WordNet 3.0

3. lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current

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   Examples

   The particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process.

   Synonyms decay decompose

   Source: WordNet 3.0

4. 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.

   verb

   Source: webster1913

5. To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly <i>disintegrates</i>.

   verb

   Source: webster1913