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Topple vs Disintegrate - What's the difference?

topple | disintegrate |

As verbs the difference between topple and disintegrate

is that topple is to push, throw over, overturn or overthrow something while disintegrate is to undo the integrity of, break into parts.

topple

English

Verb

(toppl)
  • to push, throw over, overturn or overthrow something
  • * The massed crowds toppled the statue of the former dictator
  • to totter and fall, or to lean as if about to do so
  • * The pile of pennies began to topple
  • disintegrate

    English

    Verb

    (disintegrat)
  • To undo the integrity of, break into parts.
  • * Kirwan
  • Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years.
  • To fall apart, break up into parts.
  • Synonyms

    * (qualifier) dismember, dissolve * compost, decay, dissolve

    Antonyms

    * integrate

    Derived terms

    * disintegration * disintegrative * disintegrator