Disintegrated

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disintegrate \Dis*in"te*grate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Disintegrated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disintegrating}.] [L. dis-
     + integratus, p. p. of integrare to renew, repair, fr.
     integer entire, whole. See {Integer}.]
     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.
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           Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the
           atmosphere, at least in six years.       --Kirwan.
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