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1. Break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity
   "The material disintegrated"; "the group disintegrated after the leader died"
    
2. Cause to undergo fission or lose particles
    
3. Lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current
   "the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process"
   - decay, decompose

Derived forms: disintegrated, disintegrates, disintegrating

See also: disintegration, disintegrative

Type of: alter, change, change integrity, modify

Antonym: integrate

Encyclopedia: Disintegrate