"fragmentate" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Back formation from fragmentation.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fragmentates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fragmentating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fragmentated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fragmentated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fragmentate (third-person singular simple present fragmentates, present participle fragmentating, simple past and past participle fragmentated)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, Robert Clayton Buick, Food for the Jackals, page 23",
          "text": "…if you've got any type of bone structure, the round would fragmentate and explode…",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1927, H. W. Munday, Pit and Quarry Hand Book: Useful and Practical Information for the Sand, Gravel, Stone, Cement, Gypsum, and Lime Industries, Complete Service Publishing Company, page 37",
          "text": "After you have determined by experience or trial the number of tons of stone one pound of a certain grade or strength of explosive will properly shoot or fragmentate, it then is a matter in bank shooting of locating your drill or bore holes…",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fragment (break into fragments)"
      ],
      "id": "en-fragmentate-en-verb-G37nr5ON",
      "links": [
        [
          "fragment",
          "fragment"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fragment"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fragmentate"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Back formation from fragmentation.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fragmentates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fragmentating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fragmentated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fragmentated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fragmentate (third-person singular simple present fragmentates, present participle fragmentating, simple past and past participle fragmentated)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, Robert Clayton Buick, Food for the Jackals, page 23",
          "text": "…if you've got any type of bone structure, the round would fragmentate and explode…",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1927, H. W. Munday, Pit and Quarry Hand Book: Useful and Practical Information for the Sand, Gravel, Stone, Cement, Gypsum, and Lime Industries, Complete Service Publishing Company, page 37",
          "text": "After you have determined by experience or trial the number of tons of stone one pound of a certain grade or strength of explosive will properly shoot or fragmentate, it then is a matter in bank shooting of locating your drill or bore holes…",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fragment (break into fragments)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fragment",
          "fragment"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "fragment"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fragmentate"
}