disintegrate
disintegrate is a 12-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. 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.
- intransitive verb. To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates.
- verb. break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity
"The material disintegrated"
"the group disintegrated after the leader died"
- verb. lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current
"the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process"
- verb. cause to undergo fission or lose particles
Synonyms
Common word forms
disintegrated, disintegrates, disintegrating
Words from these letters
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