Dismantle
[dɪs'mænt(ə)l] or [dɪs'mæntl]
Definition
(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.
Edited by Helen
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Unrig, strip of covering, deprive of apparatus or furniture.[2]. Despoil, demolish, devastate, destroy, raze, pull to pieces.
Typist: Ronald
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Disrobe, divest, denude, despoil, disarm, strip
ANT:Kobe, invest, drape, adorn, arrange, equip, endue
Edited by Clare
Definition
v.t. to strip: to deprive of furniture fittings &c. so as to render useless: of a fortified town to raze the fortifications.
Editor: Ned
Examples
- To follow conventional methods, the final chapter of a book should be an In conclusion with a finis and a dismantled torch, but the history of invention will ever be a continued story. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I went back, full of encouragement, and reported to the guide, and asked him to discharge this dismantled fortress. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They dismantled their machines, made public statements of what they had accomplished, and started to negotiate with various governments for the purchase of their aeroplanes for use in war. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- But surely there were beams still left in the dismantled cottages near the church? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But nobody can recover his yesterdays no matter how much he abuses the clock, and no man can expunge the memory of railroads though all the stations and engines were dismantled. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The house was dark, dismantled: and the all appearance, uninhabited. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I went round to my employer, found him in the same dismantled kind of room, and was told to keep at it until Wednesday, and then come again. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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