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disintegrative
adjective
Losing cohesion or unity.
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But Western Europe is at present developing nothing that could be used to stop medium-range rockets.Although NATO has paid lip-service to the idea of working together to head off the missile threat, there is a risk that new rockets on the periphery of Europe could have a disintegrative effect on the alliance.
Today Rett syndrome is classified as a pervasive developmental disorder, a group of conditions that includes the autism spectrum disorders and childhood disintegrative disorder.
This action neutralized potentially disintegrative political forces and involved them in national politics, but it also severely limited the centre's authority in outlying areas because local administration was based upon a compromise division of responsibilities between the local elites and the central administration.
Likewise, "not otherwise specified" indicates that an individual's symptoms are nonspecific, meaning that they differ from symptoms characteristic of other pervasive developmental disorders, such as Rett syndrome and childhood disintegrative disorder.
Secessionists who dream of Norway and Denmark should at least take a peek not just at Ukraine but into the long nightmare of Bosnia – shaken again this month by disintegrative protests.
These were fierce, agitated, disintegrative objects, responses to his own mood of displacement, or to a post-colonial Africa entering dire, disillusioning times.
This is one reason why Wing is supportive of proposed changes in diagnosis, to be implemented in 2013, which will assimilate Asperger's syndrome and several of the confusing autism sub-groups (childhood disintegrative disorder, pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified, for example) into one definitive diagnosis of autistic spectrum disorder.
In those profoundly and ingeniously disintegrative images, everything inside the body — viscera, muscles, mucus, bones, brains — moves to the outside.
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The 10 stories of the third section return to the ever-disintegrative, largely faithless American now, and here Oates turns up the heat; in each, a murder or assault is either imminent or committed.
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