0 Shares. This dictionary is from Hitchcock's New and Complete Analysis of the Holy Bible, written by Roswell D. Hitchcock in 1869. It contains more than 2,500 Bible and Bible-related proper names and their meanings.
To disintegrate is defined as to break apart and fall to pieces. An example of disintegrate is the way a cookie falls apart in a glass of milk. disintegrate. disintegrate. To become reduced to components, fragments, or particles.
Soak your tooth in a cup of soda for long enough and it will disintegrate, or break apart from decay. The word disintegrate comes from a combination of the prefix dis- meaning do the opposite of and the Latin integrare meaning to make whole.. When something disintegrates, it does the opposite of become whole; it falls apart.