英语词汇“disintegrate”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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disintegrate

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	disintegrate
	he, she, it	disintegrates
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	disintegrated
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have disintegrated
	he, she, it	has disintegrated
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had disintegrated
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will disintegrate
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have disintegrated

Continuous Form
Present	I	am disintegrating
	he, she, it	is disintegrating
	you, we, they	are disintegrating
Past	I, he, she, it	was disintegrating
	you, we, they	were disintegrating
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been disintegrating
	he, she, it	has been disintegrating
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been disintegrating
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be disintegrating
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been disintegrating

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

A 50-foot section of the roadway began to disintegrate after only a few cars had passed over it.
A large section of the roadway apparently disintegrated after the first few cars passed over it.
As the news spread of the general's death, the army disintegrated.
It seemed to him that his home life was disintegrating all at once.
The mummified man's clothes had disintegrated almost completely, but appeared to be mainly of leather and fur.
The plane disintegrated in midair.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Aggressive and competitive women, unconcerned with motherhood, produce more ruthless men-and a society so competitive that it disintegrates.
Economics is pushing nations to disintegrate and regions to integrate simultaneously.
The group was disintegrating when Mead left it.
The output of these groups may fail to develop, or their culture may disintegrate or disappear.
There had been stone dragons, and jade dragons so delicate that they disintegrated at a puff of breath.
When they disintegrate death takes place.

Longman Language Activatorto break into a lot of pieces► break into pieces/bits

· One of the mugs rolled off the table and broke into bits on the stone floor.· Investigators are not sure what caused the plane to break into pieces and plunge into the ocean.

► break up

if a large object breaks up , it breaks into a lot of pieces especially as a result of natural forces, or serious damage: · The ice breaks up quicker near the shore.· Two of the missiles apparently broke up in flight.· The comet was formed when a planet broke up at some time in the distant past.

► fall to bits/pieces

British go to pieces American to break into a lot of small pieces, especially because of being weak, old, or badly made: · The book had been read again and again, until it finally fell to pieces.· I picked the bag up, and it went to pieces in my hands.· The trunk was full of old dresses, some of which were falling to pieces.

► fall apart/come apart

to break easily into pieces, especially because of being badly made or very old: · I only bought these shoes last week, and they're falling apart already.· His jacket started coming apart at the seams.

► disintegrate

if something disintegrates , it breaks into a lot of small pieces so that it is completely destroyed or so that it completely changes its form: · A 50-foot section of the roadway began to disintegrate after only a few cars had passed over it.· The plane disintegrated in midair.· The mummified man's clothes had disintegrated almost completely, but appeared to be mainly of leather and fur.

► shatter

if something, especially glass, shatters , it breaks suddenly into a lot of very small pieces because it has been dropped or hit: · The glass had shattered, but the photograph itself was undamaged.· Storefront windows shattered and roofs blew off during the hurricane.· Don't try to drive nails into the bricks, they may shatter.

► smash

to noisily break into pieces as a result of being dropped or hit: · I heard something smash. What broke?smash to pieces/bits: · The bottle rolled off the table and smashed to pieces on the floor.

► splinter

if something such as wood splinters , it breaks into thin, sharp pieces: · These types of wood splinter more easily than redwood or cedar.· The coating helps prevent the glass from splintering if it is hit by a rock while you are driving.

► crumble

to break easily into a powder or into small pieces, especially as a result of being old or dry: · The autumn leaves crumbled in my fingers.· Some of the tiles are crumbling around the edges.

► burst

if something such as a tyre or a pipe bursts , the force of the air, water etc inside makes it break into many pieces: · The Concorde disaster was caused by a tyre bursting.· Thousands of gallons of oil flowed into the river when an oil pipeline burst.

► blow

especially American if a tyre blows , it breaks open suddenly and all the air comes out of it: · One of the tires blew and they skidded into the center divider.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► begin

· During the last weeks of 1688 James's regime began to disintegrate.· Four feet of propeller blade snapped off, investigators said, and the engine cowling began to disintegrate.· Mrs Margaret Thatcher has struck three notes since the Communist world began to disintegrate.· Johnson is fascinated with the edges of consciousness where identity begins to disintegrate.· Until the following spring anyway, when it began to disintegrate in squabbling and fighting between factions.· In such a situation, jobs naturally begin to disintegrate.· And all her internal membranes began to disintegrate.· Now some blocks made of this material have begun to disintegrate.