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Dismantle   Listen
verb
Dismantle  v. t.  (past & past part. dismantled; pres. part. dismantling)  
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."
3.
To disable; to render useless.
Synonyms: To demolish; raze. See Demolish.





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"Dismantle" Quotes from Famous Books



... for any outcry on coming to his senses. The others had gone ahead, and were already in the tunnel; with them, one of the four disabled officers, whose job it was to close up the hole at the entrance and dismantle the electric light, in the faint hope that the Germans might fail to discover their means of escape, and so leave it free for another party to try for freedom. He stood by the yawning hole, holding one end of a string by which they were to ...
— Captain Jim • Mary Grant Bruce


Words linked to "Dismantle" :   strip, rase, take, dismantlement, level, disassemble, break apart, tear down, bulldoze, raze, withdraw, destruct


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