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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
disintegrate .
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Examples
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There’s a period of one-party rule and the party out of power disintegrates, is replaced by a new second party that has a different organization/ideology, etc.
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Sixteen consecutive hours now defines the moment at which acceptable phone calling disintegrates into nuisance.
A Renaissance of Rudeness Merrill Markoe 2011
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So I eat one and, as could be expected, it's stale and powdery, and just kind of disintegrates on my tongue.
whitehelmet Diary Entry whitehelmet 2004
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Qantas grounds entire A380 fleet after engine 'disintegrates' mid-air
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Qantas grounds entire A380 fleet after engine 'disintegrates' mid-air
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Qantas grounds entire A380 fleet after engine 'disintegrates' mid-air
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Surely a thread that ends on a good note (like the Bells one) is preferable to one that disintegrates in quality?
Why? 2009
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Surely a thread that ends on a good note (like the Bells one) is preferable to one that disintegrates in quality?
Why? 2009
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Sometimes in the wild, the mother carries her newborn's body until it disintegrates.
Brenda Peterson: Japan: Stop Killing Our Evolutionary Elders and Help Save Our Oceans Brenda Peterson 2010
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The risk shrinks even more with every day that passes, because radioactive iodine disintegrates quickly, losing half of its radiation every eight days, a measure scientists call its "half life."
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