dismantle

Verb

Meaning

To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.

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.

To disable; to render useless.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

level rase strip raze tear down disassemble take down pull down take apart break apart wrack sunder separate knockdown romper
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Antonyms

gar found form support make structure
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Hypernyms

take remove destroy withdraw destruct take away

Hyponyms

strike bulldoze

Phrases with the word

use the master's tools to dismantle the master's house dismantle solder

Derivatives

dismantled dismantling

Anagrams

dentalism

Examples

strip a wall of its wallpaper Source: Internet

The building was levelled Source: Internet

A death from a previous shooting in CHOP led Mayor Jenny Durkan to announce she would move to dismantle the zone, but efforts to ask organizers to leave, thereby avoiding police intervention, have so far been fruitless. Source: Internet

And above all, strive not just to resist but to dismantle the systems that give rise to this need in the first place. Source: Internet

Allied soldiers dismantle the German experimental nuclear reactor at Haigerloch The Alsos Mission to Italy questioned staff of the physics laboratory at the University of Rome following the capture of the city in June 1944. Source: Internet

Although Cram intended to dismantle the dome and construct a massive Gothic tower in its place, this plan was never realized. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

disman dismantlability dismantlable dismantle solder dismantleable dismantled