| VERB | change | disintegrate | break / break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity |
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| change | disintegrate | cause to undergo fission or lose particles | |
| change | disintegrate, decay, decompose | lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current |
| Sounds | dihsih'ntahgrey.t | |
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| Rhymes | abate ... welterweight: 539 rhymes with eyt... | |
| Meaning | break / break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something ----s something | |
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| Narrower | crash, break up, break apart | break violently or noisily |
| crumble, fall apart | break or fall apart into fragments | |
| digest | soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture | |
| dissolve | Pass into a solution | |
| powderize, powderise, powder, pulverize, pulverise | make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | |
| powderize, pulverize, pulverise, powderise | Become powder or dust | |
| run, unravel | Become undone | |
| Broader | change integrity | change in physical make-up |
| Opposite | integrate, incorporate | make into a whole or make part of a whole |
| Adjectives | disintegrative | tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts |
| Nouns | disintegration | separation into component parts |
| disintegration | in a decomposed state | |
| Meaning | Cause to undergo fission or lose particles. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something | |
| Category | physics, natural philosophy | The science of matter and energy and their interactions |
| Broader | change, alter, modify | Cause to change |
| Similar to | disintegrate, decay, decompose | Lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current |
| Adjectives | disintegrative | tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts |
| Nouns | disintegration | the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation |
| Meaning | Lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Example | "the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process" | |
| Synonyms | decay, decompose | |
| Category | physics, natural philosophy | The science of matter and energy and their interactions |
| Broader | change integrity | change in physical make-up |
| Similar to | disintegrate | Cause to undergo fission or lose particles |
| Nouns | disintegration | the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation |