disintegrate
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- v break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity
The material disintegrated
the group disintegrated after the leader died - v cause to undergo fission or lose particles
- v lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current
the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process
- But the machine is incapable of reviving a whole dog more than about 15 minutes after its blood is drainedbody cells then begin to disintegrate.
- How vulnerable is the polar sea ice; how rapidly might the Amazon dry up; how fast could the Greenland ice cap disintegrate? That's why models like those from the Intergovernmental .
- Precisely dating the dinosaurs' demise is tough because most bones disintegrate before they can be fossilized.