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dismantle

/dɪˈsmæntəl/

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What does dismantle mean?

verb

  1. To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.
  2. To disprove a discourse, claim or argument.
  3. To divest, strip of dress or covering.
More meanings (1)

verb

  1. To remove fittings or furnishings from.

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IPA pronunciation

/dɪˈsmæntəl/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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/dɪˈsmænəl/
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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But the President, during our stay, sold the brass guns, and proceeded to dismantle parts of it.
Charles DarwinThe Voyage of the BeagleProject Gutenberg ebook #944
Push this roll, dig, dismantle, overturn, ruin everything!
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135
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So to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them.
Niccolò MachiavelliThe PrinceTranslated by W. K. (William Kenaz) MarriottProject Gutenberg ebook #1232
This is most strange, That she, who even but now was your best object, The argument of your praise, balm of your age, The best, the dearest, should in this trice of time Commit a thing so monstrous, to dismantle So many folds of favour.
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100
And at last, as we begin to tire of them, comes the scrubbing brush, and we must burn our trees and dismantle our islands, and put our soldiers in the little nests of drawers, and stand the island boards up against the wall, and put everything away.
H. G. (Herbert George) WellsFloor Games; a companion volume to "Little Wars"Project Gutenberg ebook #3690