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Webster 1913 Edition


Dismantle

Dis-man′tle

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Dismantled
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Dismantling
.]
[F.
démanteler
, 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.
Syn. – To demo[GREEK]sh; raze. See
Demol[GREEK]sh
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Dismantle

DISMANTLE

,
Verb.
T.
[dis and mantle.]
1.
To deprive of dress; to strip; to divest.
2.
To loose; to throw open.
3.
More generally, to deprive or strip of apparatus, or furniture; to unrig; as, to dismantle a ship.
4.
To deprive or strip of military furniture; as, to dismantle a fortress.
5.
To deprive of outworks or forts; as, to dismantle a town.
6.
To break down; as, his nose dismantled.

Definition 2024


dismantle

dismantle

English

Verb

dismantle (third-person singular simple present dismantles, present participle dismantling, simple past and past participle dismantled)

  1. (transitive, originally) To divest, strip of dress or covering.
  2. (transitive) To remove fittings or furnishings from.
  3. (transitive) To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.
    • 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
      In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. []

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  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967