disgregating

Verb

disgregate (third-person singular simple present disgregates, present participle disgregating, simple past and past participle disgregated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To disperse; to scatter.

   Antonyms:

   congregate, assemble, crowd, press

2. (obsolete, transitive) To separate into individual parts, disjoin, disintegrate.
   • Heat, seems to consist of rare parts, and disgregates bodies.1660, Thomas Stanley, III. i. 133, in History of Philosophy
3. (obsolete, transitive) (according to obsolete theories of vision) To scatter or make divergent (visual rays); (by extension) to dazzle, confuse, dim (the sight).
   • Black doth congregat, unite, and fortifie the sight; the other doth disgregat, scatter, and enfeeble it.1645, James Howell, VI. liii. 81, in Epistolæ Ho-elianæ