verb
- Break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity.
- usage: "The material disintegrated"; "the group disintegrated after the leader died"
- Cause to undergo fission or lose particles.
- Lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current.
- usage: "the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process"
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