| disunite | | |
| v. (social) | 1. disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, disunite, divorce | part; cease or break association with.; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president" |
| ~ break up, part, split, split up, separate, break | discontinue an association or relation; go different ways.; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up" |
| v. (contact) | 2. disunite, divide, part, separate | force, take, or pull apart.; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea" |
| ~ compartmentalise, compartmentalize, cut up | separate into isolated compartments or categories.; "You cannot compartmentalize your life like this!" |
| ~ polarise, polarize | cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positions. |
| ~ keep apart, sequestrate, set apart, isolate, sequester | set apart from others.; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on" |
| ~ disjoin, disjoint | make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of. |
| ~ disarticulate, disjoint | separate at the joints.; "disjoint the chicken before cooking it" |
| ~ disconnect | make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten. |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
| ~ tear | to separate or be separated by force.; "planks were in danger of being torn from the crossbars" |
| ~ joint | separate (meat) at the joint. |
| ~ gin | separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin. |
| ~ break | separate from a clinch, in boxing.; "The referee broke the boxers" |
| ~ divide, part, separate | come apart.; "The two pieces that we had glued separated" |
| ~ sever, break up | set or keep apart.; "sever a relationship" |
| ~ rupture, tear, snap, bust | separate or cause to separate abruptly.; "The rope snapped"; "tear the paper" |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| disintegrate | | |
| v. (change) | 1. disintegrate | break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity.; "The material disintegrated"; "the group disintegrated after the leader died" |
| ~ change integrity | change in physical make-up. |
| ~ powder, pulverize, powderise, powderize, pulverise | make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust.; "pulverize the grains" |
| ~ powderise, powderize, pulverise, pulverize | become powder or dust.; "When it was blown up, the building powderized" |
| ~ unravel, run | become undone.; "the sweater unraveled" |
| ~ crumble, fall apart | break or fall apart into fragments.; "The cookies crumbled"; "The Sphinx is crumbling" |
| ~ digest | soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture. |
| ~ dissolve | pass into a solution.; "The sugar quickly dissolved in the coffee" |
| ~ break apart, break up, crash | break violently or noisily; smash. |
| v. (change) | 2. disintegrate | cause to undergo fission or lose particles. |
| ~ natural philosophy, physics | the science of matter and energy and their interactions.; "his favorite subject was physics" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ decay, decompose, disintegrate | lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current.; "the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process" |
| v. (change) | 3. decay, decompose, disintegrate | lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current.; "the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process" |
| ~ natural philosophy, physics | the science of matter and energy and their interactions.; "his favorite subject was physics" |
| ~ change integrity | change in physical make-up. |
| ~ disintegrate | cause to undergo fission or lose particles. |
| fall apart | | |
| v. (emotion) | 1. fall apart, go to pieces | lose one's emotional or mental composure.; "She fell apart when her only child died" |
| ~ lose it, break down, snap | lose control of one's emotions.; "When she heard that she had not passed the exam, she lost it completely"; "When her baby died, she snapped" |
| v. (contact) | 2. break, bust, fall apart, wear, wear out | go to pieces.; "The lawn mower finally broke"; "The gears wore out"; "The old chair finally fell apart completely" |
| ~ decay, dilapidate, crumble | fall into decay or ruin.; "The unoccupied house started to decay" |
| ~ fray, frazzle | wear away by rubbing.; "The friction frayed the sleeve" |
| ~ bust, break | ruin completely.; "He busted my radio!" |
| v. (change) | 3. crumble, fall apart | break or fall apart into fragments.; "The cookies crumbled"; "The Sphinx is crumbling" |
| ~ disintegrate | break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity.; "The material disintegrated"; "the group disintegrated after the leader died" |
| v. (change) | 4. break, come apart, fall apart, separate, split up | become separated into pieces or fragments.; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart" |
| ~ change integrity | change in physical make-up. |
| ~ burst, break open, split | come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure.; "The bubble burst" |
| ~ puncture | be pierced or punctured.; "The tire punctured" |
| ~ bust, burst | break open or apart suddenly and forcefully.; "The dam burst" |
| ~ smash | break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow.; "The window smashed" |
| ~ ladder, run | come unraveled or undone as if by snagging.; "Her nylons were running" |
| ~ break | destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments.; "He broke the glass plate"; "She broke the match" |
| ~ snap, crack | break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension.; "The pipe snapped" |
| ~ fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize, break up | break or cause to break into pieces.; "The plate fragmented" |
| ~ crush | become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure.; "The plastic bottle crushed against the wall" |
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