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To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.

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  1. v. t. To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.
  2. v. t. 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.
  3. v. t. To disable; to render useless.
  4. v. tear down so as to make flat with the ground
  5. v. take apart into its constituent pieces
  6. v. take off or remove
  7. 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. 3. To disable; to render useless. Comber. Syn. -- To demoDemol.
  8. v:100 v tear down so as to make flat with the ground v take apart into its constituent pieces v take off or remove