Disintegration
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English
Noun
Disintegration (plural Disintegrations)- A process by which anything disintegrates.
- The condition of anything which has disintegrated.
- (geology) A wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc.
Adjectives for Disintegration
rapid; financial; slow; relentless; hopeless; mental; social.
Verbs for Disintegration
blast into—; break into—; control—; demand—; detach by—; effect—; expose to—; hasten—; influence—; produce—; tend to¬ward—; undergo—; —blurs; —destroys; —modifies; —multiplies; —proceeds from; —reduces; —separates; —sets in.
Thesaurus
abrasion, amiable weakness, atomization, attrition, beating, biodegradability, biodegradation, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakability, breakup, brecciation, brittleness, carnage, changeableness, collapse, comminution, consumption, corrosion, corruption, crack-up, crumbling, crushing, daintiness, damnation, deactivation, decay, decimation, decomposition, degradability, degradation, delicacy, demobilization, depredation, derangement, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destructibility, destruction, detachment, detrition, devastation, diaspora, diffusion, dilapidation, disarrangement, disarray, disarticulation, disbandment, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertedness, disharmony, dishevelment, disjunction, dismissal, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, dispersal, dispersion, disproportion, disruption, dissolution, disturbance, effeminacy, entropy, exfoliation, flimsiness, fragility, fragmentation, frailty, frangibility, granulation, granulization, grating, grinding, haphazardness, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, human frailty, incoherence, indecisiveness, indiscriminateness, infirmity of will, inharmonious harmony, inherent vice, irregularity, irresolution, levigation, lightness, mashing, mildew, mold, moral weakness, most admired disorder, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, oxidation, oxidization, parting, perdition, perturbation, pounding, powdering, promiscuity, promiscuousness, randomness, ravage, release, resolution, revolution, ruin, ruination, rust, scaling, scattering, separation, shambles, shattering, shredding, slaughter, sleaziness, slightness, smashing, split-up, spoilage, spoliation, trituration, turbulence, undoing, unsubstantiality, unsymmetry, ununiformity, upset, vandalism, velleity, waste, wispiness, womanishness, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck
Etymology
disintegrate
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
