Meaning of DISMANTLE
| Pronunciation: | | dis'mantl
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- [v] take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper"
- [v] take apart into its constituent pieces
- [v] tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled"
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| | Synonyms: | | break apart, break up, disassemble, level, pull down, rase, raze, strip, take apart, take down, tear down |
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| | Antonyms: | | assemble, erect, piece, put together, put up, raise, rear, set up, tack, tack together | | |
| | See Also: | | bulldoze, destroy, destruct, remove, take, take away, withdraw | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dis*man"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dismantled}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Dismantling}.] [F. d['e]manteler, OF.
desmanteler; pref: des- (L. dis-) + manteler to cover with a
cloak, defend, fr. mantel, F. manteau, cloak. See {Mantle}.]
1. To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.
2. To strip of furniture and equipments, guns, etc.; to
unrig; to strip of walls or outworks; to break down; as,
to dismantle a fort, a town, or a ship.
A dismantled house, without windows or shutters to
keep out the rain. --Macaulay.
3. To disable; to render useless. --Comber.
Syn: To demo?sh; raze. See {Demol?sh}.
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| | Related Terms: | | annihilate, atomize, bankrupt, bare, break to pieces, cleave, decimate, demolish, denudate, denude, deprive, disarray, disassemble, disintegrate, dismember, dismount, disrobe, divest, do a strip-tease, fragment, lift, make mincemeat of, pick to pieces, pull in pieces, pull to pieces, pulverize, raze, recall, reduce to rubble, rend, repeal, rescind, reverse, ruin, shatter, smash, split, strip, sunder, take apart, take down, tear apart, tear down, tear to pieces, tear to shreds, tear to tatters, total, unarray, unbuild, uncase, unclothe, undo, undrape, undress, unmake, wrack, wrack up, wreck |
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