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.
Circumstances were ripe: capitalism had deprived large sections of the working class of their livelihood, the state was cutting back on support and society was disintegrating.
In a social environment dominated by chronic poverty and disintegrating family bonds, many young males and (less visibly) young females began to group themselves into neighbourhood gangs.
Jumbes, meanwhile, were left to cope with a disintegrating social system which threatened their claims to authority.
While this may have been true in the independence struggle and immediately after, ethnic civil groups also can and do play considerable roles in undermining and disintegrating statehood.
Curtis's analysis implies that, though their footholds are disintegrating, politicians remain complacent about slow change, because their vested interests can be realized, even in a changed political context.
In lyric breakout, the potential extraordinariness becomes actual, and the constituent words hang there, strung out in precarious balance or disintegrating in lexical and syntactic fission.
In such instances, judges and jurors were even more reluctant to use scientific evidence to threaten the integrity of an existing, albeit disintegrating, family.
The authorial voice enjoys a modernist control over the symbolic language, gelid and obscure, and a modernist distance from its disintegrating subject.
