Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense dismantles, present participle dismantling, past tense, past participle dismantled
1. verb
If you dismantle a machine or structure, you carefully separate it into its different parts.
He asked for immediate help from the United States to dismantle the warheads. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: take apart, strip, demolish, raze More Synonyms of dismantle
2. verb
To dismantle an organization or system means to cause it to stop functioning by gradually reducing its power or purpose.
...opposition to the president's policy of dismantling apartheid. [VERB noun]
Public services of all kinds are being dismantled. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: abolish, end, overturn, suppress More Synonyms of dismantle
dismantle in British English
(dɪsˈmæntəl)
verb(transitive)
1.
to take apart
2.
to demolish or raze
3.
to strip of covering
Derived forms
dismantlement (disˈmantlement)
noun
dismantler (disˈmantler)
noun
Word origin
C17: from Old French desmanteler to remove a cloak from; see mantle
dismantle in American English
(dɪsˈmæntəl)
verb transitiveWord forms: disˈmantled or disˈmantling
1.
to strip of covering
2.
to strip (a house, ship, etc.) of furniture, equipment, means of defense, etc.
3.
to take apart; disassemble
SIMILAR WORDS: strip
Derived forms
dismantlement (disˈmantlement)
noun
dismantler (disˈmantler)
noun
Word origin
OFr desmanteller, to take off one's cloak: see di-1 & mantle
Examples of 'dismantle' in a sentence
dismantle
The structure was dismantled by the coalition.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Liberals have been dismantling structured society for years.
The Sun (2009)
Could an enemy be dismantling the power structure from the top down?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
But since then a gradual dismantling of the structure has been allowed.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The complexity of these scores was gradually dismantled during the next few years.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
We should have been dismantling the financial networks of these groups a long time ago.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Some schools have dismantled networks and a teaching union has called for a moratorium.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
And let's not pretend that the class system has been dismantled to any meaningful extent.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Police claim to have dismantled 12 networks of traffickers so far this year.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
A growing number of advisers are now calling for the existing charge structure to be dismantled.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
I might have added post offices but we are systematically dismantling that precious resource.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
BRITAIN'S air pollution monitoring network could be dismantled under government plans to remove the obligation on councils to produce detailed reports on local air quality.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
But as mobile companies seek to cut costs by streamlining their businesses, they have embarked on a programme to dismantle the structures.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Thereafter, he systematically dismantled the Leicestershire attack with selective strokeplay of the highest class.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
If we had not gone, the dismantling of apartheid would have taken 25 years more.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
But in the long term the dismantling of this network, made explicit by the death of its founder, will ensure its decline.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
A test case being heard in the Court of Appeal next week could pave the way for the system to be dismantled.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
In other languages
dismantle
British English: dismantle VERB
If you dismantle a machine or structure, you carefully separate it into its different parts.
He asked for immediate help to dismantle the warheads.
American English: dismantle
Brazilian Portuguese: desmontar
Chinese: 拆除
European Spanish: desmontar
French: démanteler
German: demontieren
Italian: smontaremacchina
Japanese: 分解する
Korean: 분해하다
European Portuguese: desmontar
Latin American Spanish: desmontar
Chinese translation of 'dismantle'
dismantle
(dɪsˈmæntl)
vt
[machine, structure]拆除 (chāichú)
[organization, system]废(廢)除 (fèichú)
1 (verb)
Definition
to take apart piece by piece
He asked for immediate help to dismantle the warheads.
Synonyms
take apart
strip
They stripped the car.
demolish
The building is being demolished to make way for a motorway.
raze
Dozens of villages have been razed.
disassemble
He disassembled the cabin and packed it away.
pull to pieces
unrig
take to pieces or bits
2 (verb)
Definition
to cause (an organization or political system) to stop functioning by gradually reducing its power or purpose
opposition to the president's policy of dismantling apartheid
Synonyms
abolish
They voted to abolish the death penalty.
end
Her life ended prematurely in a terrible accident.