Disintegrating

Disintegrate \Dis*in"te*grate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Disintegrated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disintegrating}.] [L. dis-
   + integratus, p. p. of integrare to renew, repair, fr.
   integer entire, whole. See {Integer}.]
   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.
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         Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the
         atmosphere, at least in six years.       --Kirwan.
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68 Moby Thesaurus words for "disintegrating":
      ablative, biodegradable, coming apart, corrosive, cracking,
      crumbling, decadent, declining, decomposable, decomposing,
      decrepit, degenerate, degradable, deteriorating, dilapidated,
      disintegrable, disintegrated, disintegrative, disjunctive,
      disruptive, draining, drooping, dwindling, ebbing, effete, erosive,
      fading, failing, falling, flagging, fragmenting, going to pieces,
      infirm, languishing, marcescent, moldering, pining, poor, poorish,
      ravaged, regressive, resolvent, retrograde, retrogressive, rotten,
      rotten at, ruinous, separative, shriveling, sinking, sliding,
      slipping, slumping, solvent, subsiding, tabetic, unfirm, unsolid,
      unsound, unstable, unsturdy, unsubstantial, waning, wasting,
      wilting, withering, worn, worsening