| ADJECTIVE | all | disintegrative | tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts |
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| Meaning | tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts. | |
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| Narrower | clastic | Of or belonging to or being a rock composed of fragments of older rocks (e.g., conglomerates or sandstone) |
| decompositional | Causing organic decay | |
| Opposite | integrative | combining and coordinating diverse elements into a whole |
| Spanish | desintegrador | |
| Verbs | disintegrate | break / break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity |
| disintegrate | cause to undergo fission or lose particles | |
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