Dictionary Definition
dismantle
Verb
1 tear down so as to make flat with the ground;
"The building was levelled" [syn: level, raze, rase, tear down,
take
down, pull down]
[ant: raise]
2 take apart into its constituent pieces [syn:
disassemble,
take
apart, break up,
break
apart] [ant: assemble]
3 take off or remove; "strip a wall of its
wallpaper" [syn: strip]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -æntəl
Verb
- (original sense) to divest, strip of dress or covering
- to remove fittings or furnishings from
- to take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces
Translations
divest
- Dutch: uitkleden
remove fittings or furnishings
- German: abwracken
take apart
- Dutch: demonteren, ontmantelen
- Finnish: purkaa, hajottaa osiinsa
- French: démonter, démanteler
- German: demontieren, auseinandernehmen
- Hebrew: לפרק (lefareq)
References
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
annihilate, atomize, bankrupt, bare, break to pieces, cleave, decimate, demolish, denudate, denude, deprive, disarray, disassemble, disintegrate, dismember, dismount, disrobe, divest, do a strip-tease,
fragment, lift, make mincemeat of, pick to
pieces, pull in pieces, pull to pieces, pulverize, raze, recall, reduce to rubble,
rend, repeal, rescind, reverse, ruin, shatter, smash, split, strip, sunder, take apart, take down,
tear apart, tear down, tear to pieces, tear to shreds, tear to
tatters, total, unarray, unbuild, uncase, unclothe, undo, undrape, undress, unmake, wrack, wrack up, wreck