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 Dis·in·te·grate v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disintegrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Disintegrating.]  To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of a hammer, frost, rain, and other mechanical or atmospheric influences.
    Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years.   --Kirwan.