English to English
verb
- break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity
The material disintegrated.
The group disintegrated after the leader died.
source: WordNet 3.0
- cause to undergo fission or lose particles
source: WordNet 3.0
- lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current
The particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process.
source: WordNet 3.0
- To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of a hammer, frost, rain, and other mechanical or atmospheric influences.
source: Webster 1913
- To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates.
source: Webster 1913
