To disintegrate is to break down into smaller pieces or to become completely ruined. When something disintegrates, it usually doesn't last very long.
The paint started to peel off the wall, and soon the wall was disintegrating.
The house is slowly disintegrating because of the rain.
verb
lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current
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verb
break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity
verb
cause to undergo fission or lose particles
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Its disintegration will foretell the disintegration in the Soviet Union.
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Discipline in the ranks disintegrated.
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The aircraft disintegrated and crashed.
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The group was disintegrated into parts.
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This led to the disintegration of the union.
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By the late 1930s, the organization disintegrated.
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The unity disintegrated from the beginning.
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Later, the parent disintegrates and the daughters invert.
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Disintegration set in among the compromising parties.
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The captivity led to a near disintegration of the community.