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Past tense of disintegrate

regular verb

The past tense of disintegrate is disintegrated. The past participle is also disintegrated.

Forms of disintegrate

Base form (V1)disintegrate /dɪsˈɪntɪɡɹeɪt/
Past tense (V2)disintegrated
Past participle (V3)disintegrated
Present participledisintegrating
Third person singulardisintegrates

Disintegrated in a sentence

  • The aircraft disintegrated, scattering wreckage over an area approximately 1,600 feet long and 300 feet wide.1973 June 14, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.12 Aircraft Wreckage”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Eastern Air Lines, Inc., L-1011...
  • The Empire disintegrated as the money holding it together ran out.2012, Harvey Beach, Apocalypse Overture, page 11. From the entry squeeze the pips
  • The bottom and top edges of the first and second pages have disintegrated.1971, D. B. Lombard, “New Values in traditional forms - a study in Menander's 'Aspis'”, in Acta Classica, volume 14, page 126 of 123–145. From the entry dicolon
  • The tire that had blown on the runway had disintegrated and punched two holes in the aircraft's undersurface.2018 February 8, Terry Liittschwager, chapter 30, in Wrongful Act, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2022. From the entry fuse plug
  • It half disintegrated on the way, crust and filling slapping against the train like an upsplash of mud.2009, Glen David Gold, Sunnyside. From the entry upsplash

Meaning of disintegrate

  1. verb To undo the integrity of; to break into parts.
  2. verb To cause to break up into infinitesimal parts through the use of a disintegrator.
  3. verb To fall apart; to break up into parts.

Full definition of disintegrate

Questions about the past tense of disintegrate

What is the past tense of disintegrate?
The past tense of disintegrate is disintegrated.
What is the past participle of disintegrate?
The past participle of disintegrate is disintegrated.
Is disintegrate a regular or irregular verb?
Disintegrate is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disintegrate (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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