disintegrate
/dɪsˈɪntɪgreɪt/verb
no obj.
1- break up into small parts, typically as the result of impact or decay（多指因冲击或腐败而）碎裂, 分裂：
when the missile struck, the car disintegrated in a sheet of searing flame
被导弹击中后, 汽车在一片火海中碎裂。
1.1
- lose strength or cohesion and gradually fail逐步瓦解; 衰败：
the marriage disintegrated amid allegations that she was having an affair.
据说她有外遇, 婚姻因此破裂。
1.2
- informal suffer from a mental breakdown〈非正式〉（精神）崩溃：
I thought that when I finished working on the book I'd disintegrate.
我想等我完成这本书的工作时, 我也该精神崩溃了。
1.3
- Physics undergo or cause to undergo disintegration at a subatomic level【物理】蜕变, 衰变：
no obj. a meson can spontaneously disintegrate介子可以自然蜕变
with obj. it has become a relatively easy matter to disintegrate almost any atom.让几乎任何原子蜕变都变得相对容易了。
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