disintegrating
present participle ofdisintegrate
| 单词 | disintegrating |
| 释义 | disintegrating present participle ofdisintegrate disintegrate verb[I] uk/dɪˈsɪn.tɪ.ɡreɪt/us/dɪˈsɪn.t̬ə.ɡreɪt/tobecomeweakeror bedestroyedbybreakingintosmallpieces: Thespacecraftdisintegrated as itenteredthe earth'satmosphere. The Ottoman Empire disintegratedintolotsofsmallstates. tobecomemuchworse: Thesituationdisintegratedintochaos.
Tearing and breaking into pieces
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Deteriorating and making worse Examplesofdisintegratingdisintegrating In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. It is easy to feel the power of this scheme at the latter end of the twentieth century in adisintegratingsociety. From theCambridge English Corpus The spatial experience of exploring adisintegratingbuilding is another fascination. From theCambridge English Corpus These judges applied this tool in order to hold togetherdisintegratingfamilies, a task better served by human judgment than by a test tube. From theCambridge English Corpus The image of the angel performs a similar contraction, collapsing into thedisintegratingfigure the evolutionary demise of religion and of humankind. From theCambridge English Corpus The old distinctions between genres of thought and practice aredisintegrating, and with them their constituencies of expert practitioners and enthusiasts. From theCambridge English Corpus A temple which is 'radiant', he says, has tremendous impact on people, whereas one which is dilapidated reflects a community which isdisintegrating. From theCambridge English Corpus Many observers, in fact, shared the impression that the body politic wasdisintegratingunder the effect of civil disturbances. From theCambridge English Corpus The authorial voice enjoys a modernist control over the symbolic language, gelid and obscure, and a modernist distance from itsdisintegratingsubject. From theCambridge English Corpus In such instances, judges and jurors were even more reluctant to use scientific evidence to threaten the integrity of an existing, albeitdisintegrating, family. From theCambridge English Corpus In lyric breakout, the potential extraordinariness becomes actual, and the constituent words hang there, strung out in precarious balance ordisintegratingin lexical and syntactic fission. From theCambridge English Corpus Curtis's analysis implies that, though their footholds aredisintegrating, politicians remain complacent about slow change, because their vested interests can be realized, even in a changed political context. From theCambridge English Corpus While this may have been true in the independence struggle and immediately after, ethnic civil groups also can and do play considerable roles in undermining anddisintegratingstatehood. From theCambridge English Corpus Jumbes, meanwhile, were left to cope with adisintegratingsocial system which threatened their claims to authority. From theCambridge English Corpus In a social environment dominated by chronic poverty anddisintegratingfamily bonds, many young males and (less visibly) young females began to group themselves into neighbourhood gangs. From theCambridge English Corpus Circumstances were ripe: capitalism had deprived large sections of the working class of their livelihood, the state was cutting back on support and society wasdisintegrating. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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