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Webster 1913 Edition

Disintegrate

Dis-in′te-grate

,
Verb.
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.
Marlites are not
disintegrated
by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years.
Kirwan.

Dis-in′te-grate

,
Verb.
I.
To decompose into integrant parts;
as, chalk rapidly
disintegrates
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Disintegrate

DISINTEGRATE

,
Verb.
T.
[dis and integer.] To separate the integrant parts of.
Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years.

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