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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