disintegrator
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- noun
- /dɪˈsɪntɪɡreɪtər/
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desintegrador
- In the sci-fi movie, the alien used a disintegrator to destroy the enemy's spacecraft.
- a sonic disintegrator
Examples
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"Doubting their visitor would find the expression 'six-eyed alien freak' politically correct, Adam braced himself to receive the disintegrator ray that would send Lil and him into eternity together."
Fiction book (2001) -
That contains patterns for a superstring slicer and quark-blasting disintegrator beam.
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Listen, what is with our order... on the Mother Goose atomic disintegrator kit?
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This must be the disintegrator I ordered to obliterate Stryker.
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It's my Buck Rogers X-38 disintegrator pistol.
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The neutron disintegrator.
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State-of-the-art disintegrators, boys.
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Seven metric tons of ultritium explosives, eight tetryon pulse launchers and 10 isomagnetic disintegrators.
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The scientist designed a disintegrator that could vaporize solid objects instantly.
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With the powerful disintegrator in hand, the hero was able to eliminate all threats in the area.
Synonyms
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5.5
A person or thing that causes great damage
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8.5
A person or thing that completely destroys something
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7.1
A device or person who makes things blow up to destroy buildings
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8.2
A person or thing that defeats others very easily and completely
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7.4
A person or thing that causes a lot of damage to something
Someone or something that destroys things completely so nothing remains
A person or thing that completely removes something unwanted
Antonyms
How Destructive
Surface Forms
Morphology
disintegrator = disintegrate (semi-transparent) = dis + integr + ate + or
The suffix '-or' regularly forms an instrument or agent noun meaning 'something that disintegrates'.
Etymology
Disintegrator comes from the parts dis- meaning 'apart' and integrate meaning 'make whole', the same root as integrity ('wholeness'). A helpful image is something that takes a whole thing and pulls it apart, which fits a fictional weapon that destroys matter completely.