0 the process of something becoming weaker or being destroyed by breaking into smaller parts or pieces:
1 a situation in which a company is divided into smaller companies, or an industry changes so that it contains more small companies and fewer large ones
She was traumatized by the brutality that accompanied the disintegration of her former country.
He believes we are seeing the gradual disintegration of order in our society.
She survived the disintegration of her marriage and the challenge of raising five children.
He brought back order and strength to a country that was on the edge of ruin and disintegration.
Floating ice shelves in the Antarctic have undergone spectacularly rapid disintegration over the past decade.
They test predictions of vertical integration, disintegration and so forth, and they find different conclusions.
Substitutions often involve grotesque imagery of bodily disintegration, and they focus on strange margins close to humans' positions.
The international objectives for co-operation were altered by the disintegration of the gold-exchange standard.
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