Definition of Disintegrates

1. Verb. (third-person singular of disintegrate) ¹

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Definition of Disintegrates

1. disintegrate [v] - See also: disintegrate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disintegrates

disinhume
disinhumed
disinhumes
disinhuming
disinsection
disinsectization
disinsure
disinsured
disinsures
disinsuring
disintegrable
disintegrant
disintegrants
disintegrate
disintegrated
disintegrates
disintegrating
disintegrating link
disintegrating links
disintegration
disintegration constant
disintegration energy
disintegrations
disintegrative
disintegrator
disintegrators
disintegrin
disintegrins
disinter
disintered

Literary usage of Disintegrates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The positive light, on the other hand, gradually draws inwards, till at last it is only a star on the end of the electrode, which now disintegrates, ..."

2. Agriculture in Some of Its Relations with Chemistry by Frank Humphreys Storer (1897)
"Composting disintegrates Vegetable-Matter. Mention has already been made of the fact that a good part of the constituents of straw remain bound up, ..."

3. Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and by Abraham Hayward (1873)
"... everybody, disintegrates everything. Each man is the head of his own family; no man can be the bead of the family of his ancestors. ..."

4. Scheyichbi and the Strand: Or, Early Days Along the Delaware ; with an by Edward Smith Wheeler (1876)
"Exposure to the heat of the sun and the effects of cold and frost disintegrates the rocks and subjects them to the effect of drift- creating forces. ..."

5. Sketch of the Geology and Mineralogy of New-London and Windham Counties, in by William Williams Mather (1834)
"A tract of this rock has already been ae- scribed, which disintegrates rapidly, and this is not adapted to use, as a building material. ..."

6. General Pathology; from the 11th Rev. German Ed. by Ernst Ziegler, Douglas Symmers (1918)
""With these changes the height of the process is reached ; the greater part of the tissue disintegrates and ulcerates, or is absorbed after disintegration. ..."

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