DISINTEGRATE

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

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. Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years. Kirwan.

2.
v.

To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates.