Dismantle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To take apart; disassemble; tear down.
  • v. To put an end to in a gradual systematic way: dismantling the cumbersome regulations for interstate trucking.
  • v. To strip of furnishings or equipment: dismantled the house before knocking it down.
  • v. To strip of covering or clothing.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To divest, strip of dress or covering
  • v. To remove fittings or furnishings from
  • v. To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.
  • v. To strip of furniture and equipments, guns, etc.; to unrig; to strip of walls or outworks; to break down.
  • v. To disable; to render useless.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To deprive of dress; strip; divest; undress.
  • To loose; throw open or off; undo.
  • Specifically—3. To deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipments, defenses, or the like: as, to dismantle a ship, a fortress, a town, etc.
  • To break down; make useless; destroy.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. take apart into its constituent pieces
  • v. take off or remove
  • v. tear down so as to make flat with the ground
  • Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    destroy    destruct    remove    take    withdraw    take away   
    Cross Reference
    stripe   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    demo�sh    demol�sh    raze    unrig    disable   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Channel    Chantal    Mantle    annal    annul    antal    cantle    channel    empanel    flannel   
    Same Context
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