Disintegrating

2 definitions found

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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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  68 Moby Thesaurus words for "disintegrating":
     ablative, biodegradable, coming apart, corrosive, cracking,
     crumbling, decadent, declining, decomposable, decomposing,
     decrepit, degenerate, degradable, deteriorating, dilapidated,
     disintegrable, disintegrated, disintegrative, disjunctive,
     disruptive, draining, drooping, dwindling, ebbing, effete, erosive,
     fading, failing, falling, flagging, fragmenting, going to pieces,
     infirm, languishing, marcescent, moldering, pining, poor, poorish,
     ravaged, regressive, resolvent, retrograde, retrogressive, rotten,
     rotten at, ruinous, separative, shriveling, sinking, sliding,
     slipping, slumping, solvent, subsiding, tabetic, unfirm, unsolid,
     unsound, unstable, unsturdy, unsubstantial, waning, wasting,
     wilting, withering, worn, worsening