Deintegrate vs. Disintegrate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Deintegrate and Disintegrate
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Deintegrate
(obsolete) To disintegrate.
Disintegrate
To become reduced to components, fragments, or particles.
Deintegrate
To disintegrate.
Disintegrate
To lose cohesion or unity
Pressures that cause families to disintegrate.
Disintegrate
Physics & Chemistry To decompose, decay, or undergo a nuclear transformation.
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Disintegrate
To cause to disintegrate.
Disintegrate
(transitive) To undo the integrity of, break into parts.
Disintegrate
To cause to break up into infinitesimal parts through the use of a disintegrator.
Disintegrate
(intransitive) To fall apart, break up into parts.
Disintegrate
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.
Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years.
Disintegrate
To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates.
Disintegrate
Break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity;
The material disintegrated
The group disintegrated after the leader died
Disintegrate
Cause to undergo fission or lose particles
Disintegrate
Lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current;
The particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process
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