0 past simple and past participle of disintegrate
1 to become weaker or be destroyed by breaking into small pieces:
The spacecraft disintegrated as it entered the earth's atmosphere.
Many meteors disintegrate during their passage through the atmosphere.
The rubber washer at the back of the machine needs replacing - look, it has completely disintegrated.
The archaeologist explained that the cloth this brooch was pinned to has since disintegrated.
It's ok to flush away toilet tissue because it disintegrates, but disposable nappies do not.
These were supposed to be the disintegrated large glycoconjugates of egg-jelly.
The first committees to be elected had only six months to learn about governance before the safe zone suddenly disintegrated.
Most morphological alterations were presented by the vacuolization of embryonic cells, disintegrated cytoplasm, swollen mitochondria and dilatation in rough endoplasmic reticula.
