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/dɪsmˈæntəlɪŋ/ /dɪsmˈænəlɪŋ/ /dˌɪsmˈæntlɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Dismantle v. t. (past & past part. dismantled; pres. part. dismantling)

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. "A dismantled house, without windows or shutters to keep out the rain."

To disable; to render useless.

Synonyms: To demolish; raze. See Demolish.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dismantling" Quotes from Famous Books

... you know the rest of the story, about how that destroyer spotted us and got us and my diary aboard, and towed the rocket to San Francisco. News of the "captured Martian" leaked out, and we all became nine-day wonders until the dismantling of the rocket. ...

— The Dope on Mars • John Michael Sharkey

... absent chiefs to be searched for records and secret correspondence. Two or three, in the neighborhood have already gone through this ordeal; but the even has proved that it was not papers they sought, but plunder, and an excuse for dismantling the castles, or occupying them ...

— The Scottish Chiefs • Miss Jane Porter

... prudent to have done so on the night of the 8th, as the enemy would naturally make an energetic effort after the fall of Spanish Fort; but he was unwilling to yield any ground until the last moment, and felt confident of holding the place another day. After dismantling his works, Maury marched out of Mobile on the 12th of April, with forty-five hundred men, including three field batteries, and was directed to Cuba Station, near Meridian. In the interest of the thirty thousand non-combatants of the town, he properly notified the enemy ...

— Destruction and Reconstruction: - Personal Experiences of the Late War • Richard Taylor

... the chapped sideboard. The image it returned to him had the color of a very young pea somewhat over-boiled. The scenery of a long tragic drama flashed through his mind as the lightning-express-train whishes by a station: the gradual dismantling process of disease; friends looking on, sympathetic, but secretly chuckling over their own stomachs of iron and lungs of caoutchouc; nurses attentive, but calculating their crop, and thinking how soon it will be ripe, so that they can go to ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, No. 20, June, 1859 • Various

... farmer's and secured the horses and wagon. Then the work of dismantling Kamp Kill Kare began. They tried to appear gay, but every one of the boys had become attached to the place during their short stay, and felt badly over leaving these scenes with so much undone that they ...

— The Outdoor Chums - The First Tour of the Rod, Gun and Camera Club • Captain Quincy Allen

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