Word Meanings - DISINTEGRATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The process by which anything is disintegrated; the condition of anything which is disintegrated. Specifically The wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc. Society had need of further

Additional info about word: DISINTEGRATION

The process by which anything is disintegrated; the condition of anything which is disintegrated. Specifically The wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc. Society had need of further disintegration before it could begin to reconstruct itself locally. Motley.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISINTEGRATION)

• Dilapidation
• Ruin
• decay
• disintegration
• downfall
• crumbling
• demolition
• dismantlement
• Disruption
• Disintegration
• discord
• dissension
• a breaking up
• separation
• alienation
• hostility
• Solution
• Separation
• discerption
• disruption
• breach
• discontinuance
• disconnection
• disentanglement
• elucidation
• explanation
• key
• answer
• resolution

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DISINTEGRATION)

• Rise
• grow
• increase
• flourish
• luxuriate
• vegetate
• expand
• enlarge

Related words: (words related to DISINTEGRATION)

• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• DECAY
  To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• DISCORDABLE
  That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant. Halliwell.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• RESOLUTIONER
  One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution; specifically, one of a party in the Scottish Church in the 17th century. He was sequestrated afterwards as a Resolutioner. Sir W. Scott.
• DEMOLITIONIST
  A demolisher. Carlyle.
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• DISCORD
  Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord. For a discord itself is
• ANSWER
  1. To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation. 2. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to ; to
• EXPLANATION
  1. The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty. 2. That which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory
• DECAYER
  A causer of decay.
• DOWNFALLEN
  Fallen; ruined. Carew.
• BREAKAWAY
  A wild rush of sheep, cattle, horses, or camels (especially at the smell or the sight of water); a stampede. 2. An animal that breaks away from a herd.
• INCREASEMENT
  Increase. Bacon.
• FLOURISHINGLY
  , adv. In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.
• EXPANDER
  Anything which causes expansion esp. a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.
• SOLUTION
  The act or process by which a body (whether solid, liquid, or gaseous) is absorbed into a liquid, and, remaining or becoming fluid, is diffused throughout the solvent; also, the product reulting from such absorption. Note: When a solvent will not
• DOWNFALLING
  Falling down.
• DISCORDOUS
  Full of discord.
• MONSEL'S SOLUTION
  An aqueous solution of Monsel's salt, having valuable styptic properties.
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• LAWBREAKER
  One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
• NONSOLUTION
  Failure of solution or explanation.
• OATHBREAKING
  The violation of an oath; perjury. Shak
• PEACEBREAKER
  One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n.
• UPBREAK
  To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface.
• PERBREAK
  See PARBREAK
• OUTBREAK
  A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection. "Mobs and outbreaks." J. H. Newman. The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind. Shak.