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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 shipA
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.
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)
- (transitive, originally) To divest, strip of dress or covering.
- (transitive) To remove fittings or furnishings from.
- (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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Derived terms
Translations
divest
remove fittings or furnishings
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take apart
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References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967