DISINTEGRATE: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for DISINTEGRATE?

Need another word that means the same as “disintegrate”? Find 29 synonyms and 30 related words for “disintegrate” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Disintegrate” are: decay, decompose, break up, break apart, fall apart, fall to pieces, fall to bits, fragment, fracture, shatter, splinter, break down, rot, moulder, perish, corrode, deteriorate, fail, fall through, fold, founder, fall flat, miscarry, go wrong, come to nothing, come to grief, be frustrated, be unsuccessful, not succeed

Disintegrate as a Verb

Definitions of "Disintegrate" as a verb

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “disintegrate” as a verb can have the following definitions:

• Undergo or cause to undergo disintegration at a subatomic level.
• Break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity.
• Lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current.
• Cause to undergo fission or lose particles.
• Break up into small parts as the result of impact or decay.
• Lose strength or cohesion and gradually fail.

Synonyms of "Disintegrate" as a verb (29 Words)

be frustrated	Occupy a certain position or area.
be unsuccessful	Have life, be alive.
break apart	Scatter or part.
break down	Break down literally or metaphorically.
break up	Become separated into pieces or fragments.
come to grief	Reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress.
come to nothing	Come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example.
corrode	Destroy or weaken (something) gradually. Over the years copper pipework corrodes.
decay	Undergo decay or decomposition. The trapped radiocarbon begins to decay at a known rate.
decompose	Break down. Living organisms are used to decompose water into hydrogen and oxygen.
deteriorate	Become progressively worse. If the situation continues to deteriorate the consequences could be severe.
fail	Fail to do something leave something undone. She studied hard but failed nevertheless.
fall apart	Be due.
fall flat	Come as if by falling.
fall through	Be captured.
fall to bits	Be born, used chiefly of lambs.
fall to pieces	Be inherited by.
fold	Become folded or folded up. The club folded earlier this year.
founder	Break down, literally or metaphorically. The project foundered.
fracture	Fracture a bone of. The movement had fractured without his leadership.
fragment	Break or cause to break into fragments. The plate fragmented.
go wrong	Move away from a place into another direction.
miscarry	(of a pregnant woman) experience a miscarriage. Such a rash crime and one so very likely to miscarry.
moulder	Slowly decay or disintegrate, especially because of neglect. The books if any are ever printed will moulder in the warehouse.
not succeed	Attain success or reach a desired goal.
perish	Be suffering from extreme cold. The children perished in the fire.
rot	Gradually deteriorate, especially through neglect. The chalets were neglected and their woodwork was rotting away.
shatter	Damage or destroy (something abstract. Everyone was shattered by the news.
splinter	Break up into splinters or slivers. He crashed into a fence splintering the wooden barricade.

Usage Examples of "Disintegrate" as a verb

• The material disintegrated.
• Our shoes had to last until they disintegrated on our feet.
• It has become a relatively easy matter to disintegrate almost any atom.
• A meson can spontaneously disintegrate.
• The group disintegrated after the leader died.
• Their marriage disintegrated.
• The particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process.

Associations of "Disintegrate" (30 Words)

break	Break a piece from a whole. Break into tears.
collapse	Collapse due to fatigue an illness or a sudden attack. The wall collapsed.
corpse	The dead body of a human being. He believed that fascism would revive the corpse of Europe.
crumb	Break into crumbs. Endless scrabbling for crumbs from the public spending table is undermining morale.
crumble	A pudding made with crumble and fruit. The building crumbled after the explosion.
decay	Fall into decay or ruin. The gas radon is produced by the decay of uranium in rocks and soil.
decompose	Separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts. Living organisms are used to decompose water into hydrogen and oxygen.
decomposition	The analysis of a vector field. The decomposition of organic waste.
deconstruct	Analyse a text or linguistic or conceptual system by deconstruction. I want to deconstruct this myth that poverty breeds crime.
degradation	A low or downcast state. A trail of human misery and degradation.
disassemble	Take (something) to pieces. The piston can be disassembled for transport.
disband	(with reference to an organized group) break up or cause to break up. The principal disbanded the political student organization.
dismantle	Tear down so as to make flat with the ground. The engines were dismantled and the bits piled into a heap.
dismember	Separate the limbs from the body. He watched a doctor dismember the body.
dissolve	(film) a gradual transition from one scene to the next; the next scene is gradually superimposed as the former scene fades out. The sugar quickly dissolved in the coffee.
iconoclast	A Puritan of the 16th or 17th century.
iron	A shot made with an iron. Her father had a will of iron.
mangle	Press with a mangle. The car was mangled almost beyond recognition.
molder	Break down.
mutilate	Alter so as to make unrecognizable. Mutilated bodies.
perishable	(of something abstract) having a brief life or significance; transitory. Caviar is extremely perishable.
permafrost	A thick subsurface layer of soil that remains below freezing point throughout the year, occurring chiefly in polar regions. Hilly terrain underlain by permafrost.
putrefaction	The process of decay or rotting in a body or other organic matter. The breeze shifted and we caught the stench of putrefaction.
putrid	In an advanced state of decomposition and having a foul odor- Somerset Maugham. Horrible like raw and putrid flesh.
rot	Liver rot in sheep. The education system has been allowed to rot.
rotten	Extremely unpleasant. She was a rotten cook.
soluble	Susceptible of solution or of being solved or explained. The poison is soluble in alcohol.
solvable	Capable of being solved. Such problems are perfectly solvable.
spoil	The act of spoiling something by causing damage to it. Cooper was spoiling for a fight.
spoilage	The action or process of spoiling, especially the deterioration of food and other perishable goods.