0 present 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.
It is easy to feel the power of this scheme at the latter end of the twentieth century in a disintegrating society.
The spatial experience of exploring a disintegrating building is another fascination.
These judges applied this tool in order to hold together disintegrating families, a task better served by human judgment than by a test tube.
