Thesaurus: dismantle
To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.
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Definitions
- v. t. To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.
- 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.
- v. t. To disable; to render useless.
- v. tear down so as to make flat with the ground
- v. take apart into its constituent pieces
- v. take off or remove
- 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.
- 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