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.
Most likely, however, the larvae died and disintegrated early in the tissue due to host responses.
The shell subsequently disintegrated into a ruinous and dangerous state.
Most of these had destroyed envelopes and disintegrated teguments.
Once political power was lost, the family empire, so dependent on this artificial and arbitrary special treatment, disintegrated.
However, the unprocessed and disintegrated feelings from these incidents did not vanish.
Her suffering abated insofar as the framework of self against which illness is experienced and understood disintegrated.
Because impairment was not observed, the authors took this as evidence that feature binding in the action plan had disintegrated so that no interference occurred.
For instance, by the late 1970s and early 1980s the kadakkodi system had disintegrated in some of the villages.