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The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.

The uncovering of anything buried or covered with earth; a taking out of the earth or ground. Woodward.

The change of vapor into water, as in the formation of rain.

The act of devouring. [Obs.] Holinshed.

Same as Dextrorotatory.

To rend asunder; to tear to pieces. Sir T. Browne.

The act of rending asunder. Arbuthnot.

Enumeration. [Obs.] Bullokar.

The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly.

To discolor. [R.] Fuller.

The act of discoloring, or the state of being discolored; alteration of hue or appearance. Darwin.

To deprive of consecration or sacredness. [R.]

Deprived of the privileges or form of a body corporate. [Obs.] Jas. II.

The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfigurement. Gauden.

To liberate from prison. [R.] Harvey.

To deprive of corporate powers, rights, or privileges; to divest of the condition of a corporate body.

Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation. T. Warton.

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.

The process by which anything is disintegrated; the condition of anything which is disintegrated. Specifically

A machine for grinding or pulverizing by percussion.