disintegrates

present tense third-person singular of disintegrate
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Recent Examples of disintegrates The debris collides with Earth's atmosphere at high speed and disintegrates, creating fiery and colorful streaks in the sky. Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 12 Aug. 2025 Recruits typically come from deprived areas, and as Russia’s economy disintegrates in slow motion, the bonanza offered by the army looks increasingly appealing. David Hambling, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025 What about uploading your brain to the cloud as your body disintegrates and becomes irrelevant? Hannah Jocelyn, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disintegrates
Verb
  • When leaves fall to the ground, the carbon stays in these leaves, breaks down, and decomposes and releases nutrients back into the soil that plants can take in.
    Saleen Martin, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The calculation, called the Fourier transform, decomposes any function into its parts.
    Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The White House is halting $18 billion in New York infrastructure funding due to concerns over diversity and inclusion practices and as the first day of a federal shutdown grinds government work to a halt.
    Gregory Korte, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
  • This all-in-one machine grinds and brews for maximum freshness, dispensing the perfect dose of caffeine each time.
    Christopher Murray may earn a commission if you buy through our referral links. This content was created by a team that works independently from the Fox newsroom., FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • On play one, Moore reads the tight end throwback pass and disrupts the catch (or else the tight end might still be running).
    Dane Brugler, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • But when a mysterious and powerful agent disrupts the negotiations, Brahim discovers the shady side of the business.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The heartwood in the tree’s center decays first and makes for easy excavating.
    Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 21 Sep. 2025
  • This could include some sort of novel, exotic form of mass or energy, a non-standard form of dark matter or dark energy that decays or otherwise interacts, or a modification to one or more laws of physics.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The man simply pounds the zone.
    Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Laughter from the crowd breaks the tension of what could have been understood as metaphor for Netanyahu’s actions.
    Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • In an industrial kiln, these pellets reach temperatures of around 900 degrees Celsius, which breaks them down and releases pure CO2 gas.
    Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • If Britain continues down the path of criminalizing thought and prayer, the alliance risks being reduced to polite diplomacy while its moral core rots away.
    Lois McLatchie Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • However, Dort’s fate is sealed after the chandelier crashes down and crushes him to death.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
  • First crushes, first loves, the beautiful days of summer, and heartbreak are what made this book an instant hit with teens.
    Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 14 Aug. 2025

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“Disintegrates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disintegrates. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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