Verb (used without object) : The old book is gradually disintegrating with age. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : Rocks are disintegrated by frost and rain. From Dictionary.com.
They had a very rare condition on the autistic spectrum, called disintegrative disorder. From Wordnik.com. [Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Instead, the challenge is to maintain a healthy equilibrium between centrifugal ( "disintegrative") and centripetal. From Wordnik.com. [NATION-FORMATION AND NATION BUILDING] Reference
Instead, the challenge is to maintain a healthy equilibrium between centrifugal ( "disintegrative") and centripetal ( "integrative") tendencies. From Wordnik.com. [Nation-formation and nation building] Reference
Instead, the challenge is to maintain a healthy equilibrium between centrifugal ( 'disintegrative') and centripetal ( 'integrative') tendencies. From Wordnik.com. [Background Documents] Reference
Far from showing integrative thinking, this is disintegrative. From Wordnik.com. [Revelations of Vygotsky] Reference
The sea talked and talked all the time, in its disintegrative, elemental language. From Wordnik.com. [Kangaroo] Reference
The contradictions among the reactionaries are bound to become more violent and disintegrative of the system. From Wordnik.com. [Naxalite Maoist India] Reference
Instead, the challenge was to maintain a healthy equilibrium between disintegrative and integrative tendencies. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Deconstruction in language is therefore not a purely disintegrative movement, but is equally a constructive device. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
Behavioural disorders included autism (nine), disintegrative psychosis (one), and possible postviral or vaccinal encephalitis (two). From Wordnik.com. [Medpundit] Reference
In the Balkans the collapse of both communist authoritarianism and the Cold War security structure unleashed disintegrative tribal forces. From Wordnik.com. [The Lawless Frontier] Reference
Autism spectrum disorder includes pervasive developmental disorder, Rett's syndrome, Asperger syndrome and childhood disintegrative disorder. From Wordnik.com. [Older Dads More Likely To Have Autistic Kids] Reference
An economically weakened, politically divided and socially crisis-ridden Ukrainian state could destabilize and exhibit disintegrative tendencies. From Wordnik.com. [Europe's Share in the Ukrainian Malaise: The EU commits a historical mistake denying Kyiv a membership perspective] Reference
The leading ideas of the Conference were cloudily true, but the disintegrative forces of personal, party and national egotism were too strong for them. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
I see them as making the issue of a disintegrative civil war in Iraq - and the scope of its tragic potential - an issue that is long overdue for serious focus. From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
The main currents of morphological thought are to my mind three -- the functional or synthetic, the formal or transcendental, and the materialistic or disintegrative. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
This promises to be more violent and more disintegrative of the ruling system, and this provides conditions for the accelerated advance of the revolutionary movement. From Wordnik.com. [Naxalite Maoist India] Reference
That is to say, if an animal be treated with injections of these bodies, its serum acquires the power of dissolving or of producing some disintegrative effect in them. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
All other Serbs felt humiliated by what they regarded as a capitulation to irredentism, bound to have a disintegrative domino effect on the rest of Serbia's possessions. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
Such anti-national and disintegrative acts must not be overlooked. From Wordnik.com. [Shadow Warrior] Reference
Children enrolled in the study had to have "manifested disintegrative disorder.". From Wordnik.com. [Autism Hub] Reference
The "new syndrome" they had discovered was named enteritis/disintegrative disorder. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
Asperger's disorder, childhood disintegrative disorder and pervasive developmental disorder. From Wordnik.com. [innovations-report] Reference
What is child disintegrative disorder and what does that have to do with autism, plain and simple?. From Wordnik.com. [Autism Vox] Reference
Childhood disintegrative disorder and pervasive developmental disorder would also be included on the autism spectrum. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
An economically weakened, politically divided and socially crisis-ridden Ukraine could destabilize and exhibit disintegrative tendencies. From Wordnik.com. [News on www.kyivpost.com] Reference
The five are autism, Asperger's syndrome, Rett syndrome, pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified and childhood disintegrative disorder. From Wordnik.com. [The Facts: News] Reference
The disturbance is not better accounted for by Rett's disorder or childhood disintegrative disorder. an op-ed piece in the New York Times by Prof. Roy Richard Grinker. From Wordnik.com. [Autism Hub] Reference
Here, the vulnerability of one of society to the disintegrative forces of fourth-generation war left it vulnerable to a powerful neighbor that had not been so weakened. From Wordnik.com. [Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense] Reference
These developmental disorders are autism, Asperger's syndrome, Rett syndrome, pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified and childhood disintegrative disorder. From Wordnik.com. [The Facts: News] Reference
Is it not possible that the current even of an induction battery has the power so to stimulate the tissues as to cause an increase in the ordinary rate of disintegrative change?. From Wordnik.com. [Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria] Reference
These five developmental disorders are autism, Asperger's syndrome, Rett syndrome, pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified and childhood disintegrative disorder. From Wordnik.com. [The Facts: News] Reference
Other asds include: classic autism, Rett syndrome, childhood disintegrative disorder, and pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (usually referred to as PDD-NOS). From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to New survey finds grandparents play key role in lives of children with autism] Reference
Other ASDs include Asperger syndrome, Rett syndrome, childhood disintegrative disorder, and pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (usually referred to as PDD-NOS). From Wordnik.com. [Press Release] Reference
The APA proposed a single diagnostic category, "autism spectrum disorders," to incorporate autistic disorder, Asperger's disorder, childhood disintegrative disorder and pervasive developmental disorder. From Wordnik.com. [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference
TODAY: Five developmental disorders fall under the umbrella of autism: autism, Asperger's syndrome, Rett syndrome, pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified and childhood disintegrative disorder. From Wordnik.com. [The Facts: News] Reference
SUNDAY: Five developmental disorders fall under the umbrella of autism: autism, Asperger's syndrome, Rett syndrome, pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified and childhood disintegrative disorder. From Wordnik.com. [The Facts: News] Reference
Children's Medical Center Dallas, said some of the increase can be explained by a broader definition of the autism spectrum, which includes Asperger's syndrome, Rett syndrome and childhood disintegrative disorder. From Wordnik.com. [Kentucky.com: Homepage] Reference
These include Autistic Disorder, Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS), Asperger Syndrome, Rett Syndrome and Childhood disintegrative disorder. From Wordnik.com. [Autism Hub] Reference
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