verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
begin
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During the last weeks of 1688 James's regime began to disintegrate .
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Four feet of propeller blade snapped off, investigators said, and the engine cowling began to disintegrate .
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Mrs Margaret Thatcher has struck three notes since the Communist world began to disintegrate .
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Johnson is fascinated with the edges of consciousness where identity begins to disintegrate .
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Until the following spring anyway, when it began to disintegrate in squabbling and fighting between factions.
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In such a situation, jobs naturally begin to disintegrate .
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And all her internal membranes began to disintegrate .
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Now some blocks made of this material have begun to disintegrate .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A 50-foot section of the roadway began to disintegrate after only a few cars had passed over it.
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A large section of the roadway apparently disintegrated after the first few cars passed over it.
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As the news spread of the general's death, the army disintegrated.
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It seemed to him that his home life was disintegrating all at once.
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The mummified man's clothes had disintegrated almost completely, but appeared to be mainly of leather and fur.
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The plane disintegrated in midair.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Aggressive and competitive women, unconcerned with motherhood, produce more ruthless men-and a society so competitive that it disintegrates.
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Economics is pushing nations to disintegrate and regions to integrate simultaneously.
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The group was disintegrating when Mead left it.
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The output of these groups may fail to develop, or their culture may disintegrate or disappear.
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There had been stone dragons, and jade dragons so delicate that they disintegrated at a puff of breath.
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When they disintegrate death takes place.