English > disintegrate: 3 senses > verb 1, change| Meaning | break / break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something ----s something |
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| Examples | - "The material disintegrated"
- "the group disintegrated after the leader died"
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| Narrower | crash, break up, break apart | break violently or noisily |
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| crumble, fall apart | break or fall apart into fragments |
| digest | soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture |
| dissolve | Pass into a solution |
| powderize, powderise, powder, pulverize, pulverise | make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust |
| powderize, pulverize, pulverise, powderise | Become powder or dust |
| run, unravel | Become undone |
| Broader | change integrity | change in physical make-up |
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| Opposite | integrate, incorporate | make into a whole or make part of a whole |
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| Spanish | desintegrarse, desintegrar, disgregar |
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| Catalan | desintegrar-se, desintegrar |
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| Adjectives | disintegrative | tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts |
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| Nouns | disintegration | separation into component parts |
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| disintegration | in a decomposed state |
