disintegrating

English

Verb

disintegrating

1. present participle and gerund of disintegrate

Adjective

disintegrating (not comparable)

1. That causes disintegration.
   • 1916 November, Hugo Gernsback, “Baron Münchhausen's New Scientific Adventures”, in The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 539, column 2:

     "By means of the purple disintegrating rays, the site to be used later for agricultural purposes is treated exactly as is the canal proper."

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 186:

     The city did not evolve up from the ground, it descended from Heaven; the me's, the divine laws which constitute the program for civilization, were carried by Inanna from the seat of Enki at Eridu to her beloved Erech (Uruk); without these divine laws, no city can hold together, no wall can stand against the disintegrating wind of the desert.

Derived terms

• disintegratingly