Change Integrity (Verb)
Meaning
Change in physical make-up.
Classification
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
Examples
- The extreme temperatures during the spacecraft's re-entry began to change the integrity of its metal hull.
- Years of exposure to polluted water had a profound impact and started to change the structural integrity of the bridge.
- Radioactive decay can change the molecular integrity of living organisms, leading to mutations and genetic disorders.
- Cancer cells can change the integrity of the epithelial tissue, causing it to break down and become permeable.
- Prolonged exposure to UV radiation can change the integrity of skin tissue, leading to the formation of skin cancer and premature aging.
Hyponyms
- Detonate
- Crystallise
- Liquify
- Split
- Separate
- Pasteurise
- Collapse
- Dissever
- Set Off
- Conflate
- Coalesce
- Commingle
- Crystalize
- Mix
- Break Up
- Fall Apart
- Combine
- Jelly
- Tumble
- Decompose
- Disperse
- Meld
- Split Up
- Merge
- Scatter
- Vaporise
- Aerify
- Incinerate
- Burst
- Immix
- Flux
- Come Apart
- Decay
- Crystalise
- Carve Up
- Polymerise
- Break Down
- Vaporize
- Fuse
- Crumple
- Blow Up
- Resolve
- Inspissate