Crumbling vs Disintegrate - What's the difference?
crumbling | disintegrate |
Material that has crumbled away; crumbs.
* Henry James, The Aspern Papers
To undo the integrity of, break into parts.
* Kirwan
To fall apart, break up into parts.
As verbs the difference between crumbling and disintegrate
is that crumbling is present participle of lang=en while disintegrate is to undo the integrity of, break into parts.As a noun crumbling
is material that has crumbled away; crumbs.crumbling
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(head)Noun
(en noun)- Blank I call it, but it was figured over with the patches that please a painter, repaired breaches, crumblings of plaster, extrusions of brick that had turned pink with time
disintegrate
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(disintegrat)- Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years.