disintegrates

verb

present tense third-person singular of disintegrate
1
as in decomposes
to go through decomposition fallen leaves slowly disintegrate over the course of the winter

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2
as in grinds
to reduce to fine particles modern air pollution is gradually disintegrating the ancient temple's irreplaceable friezes

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3
as in disrupts
to cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forcibly a tornado disintegrated the building in a matter of seconds

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Recent Examples of disintegrates Even those who can afford to stay suffer losses in home equity and lifestyle as the community around them disintegrates or disappears. — The Conversation, Fortune, 12 June 2026 None are quite about the conflicting frames of reference and value that arise when an ancient cultural formation disintegrates and a successor has yet to take its place. — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 1 June 2026 The skin stretches out and disintegrates, posing a risk of limb amputation. — Anna Giaritelli, The Washington Examiner, 17 May 2026 The debris – space rocks known as meteoroids – collides with Earth's atmosphere at high speed and disintegrates, creating fiery and colorful streaks in the sky, according to NASA. — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 7 May 2026 But shortly thereafter, its nucleus fragments and quickly disintegrates. — Joe Rao, Space.com, 31 Mar. 2026 The café disintegrates, white-peach mimosas lost forever. — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026 If the American state disintegrates, future postmortems are unlikely to focus much on measles, or on rotavirus vaccination rates. — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2026 The debris — space rocks known as meteoroids — collides with Earth's atmosphere at high speed and disintegrates, creating fiery and colorful streaks in the sky, according to NASA. — Doris Alvarez Cea, Florida Times-Union, 2 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disintegrates
  1. decomposes
  2. grinds
  3. disrupts
  4. decays
  5. pounds
  6. breaks
  7. rots
  8. crushes
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  • Named for the Frenchman Joseph Fourier, the Fourier transform decomposes any function into a set of simple waves, each with a different frequency, or tone.
    — Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The research team enabled a room-temperature, four-electron chemical reaction path that forms and decomposes lithium oxide, which expands available energy storage.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 June 2026
Definition of decomposes
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  • That dust grinds at the wheel bearings and works past the seals.
    — Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The Russia and Ukraine conflict grinds into a fifth year; a new Fed chair settles in while tariff policy whipsaws through the courts; tensions with allies and adversaries alike continue to flare.
    — Nigel Morris, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of grinds
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  • The capability could prove useful during missions where electronic warfare disrupts conventional navigation systems.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Sleep and health researchers say moving clocks twice a year disrupts the body's circadian rhythm, which regulates sleep and other biological functions.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of disrupts
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  • Rituals are performed, oaths proposed and broken, and tensions escalate as the unburied body decays.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Control concentrated in one person dies with that person, decays with that person's judgment, and converts to cash the day that person takes a hard enough offer.
    — Kyle Westaway, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Definition of decays
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  • The first murder is a girl slicing into her slumbering mother’s neck with a hacksaw; then her brother pounds his father’s face in with a baseball bat.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Back from a hamstring injury, Teoscar Hernández rejoins a relentless Dodgers offense that pounds 17 hits and three homers in a 9-4 win over the Athletics.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
Definition of pounds
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  • The needle goes into the record, and the signal is continuous, and digital, of course, breaks it up into zeros and ones.
    — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Whichever way the debut breaks, the machines run on Nvidia's robot chips and train in Nvidia's simulators, so the intelligence layer collects on every outcome.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of breaks
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  • Medicine shortages have worsened and food rots in fridges without power.
    — Andrea Rodriguez, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Parents used to tell their children that television rots the brain; now it’s considered a medium for legitimate art.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 1 June 2026
Definition of rots
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  • Once there, Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, Sven, and Olaf watch as the butterfly approaches the outstretched hand of a woman whose face is obscured, before the ominous presence crushes it in her hands.
    — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Katie Ledecky crushes the world record in the 1,500 freestyle for her second gold medal at the world swimming championships in Barcelona, Spain.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026
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