dismantle
- to deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipment, defenses, etc.: to dismantle a ship; to dismantle a fortress.
- to disassemble or pull down; take apart: They dismantled the machine and shipped it in pieces.
- to divest of dress, covering, etc.: The wind dismantled the trees of their leaves.
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demolish, disassemble, wreck, undo, destroy, raze, wrack, annihilate, level, subvert, ruin, denude, deprive, decimate, fell, bare, dismount, strip, strike, divestExamples from the Web for dismantle
Contemporary Examples of dismantle
But it will take more than superficial solidarity to dismantle those structures and the ideologies that birthed them.
Today, though, professional and amateur historians can build counter-narratives that are hard to dismantle.
This missive could just be read as your standard step-around; an attempt to dismantle a potential PR bomb before it detonates.
I used to dismantle a calculator to understand how it works.
Vilified Bitcoin Tycoon After Losing $500 Million: My Life Is at RiskNathalie-Kyoko Stucky
September 17, 2014
"Step by step, we must drive back, dismantle and ultimately destroy ISIL and what it stands for," he said.
Historical Examples of dismantle
Tonight I dismantle this, and tomorrow start reconstructing it for Isaak's head.
The IdealStanley Grauman Weinbaum
Therefore did the magnanimous Burl dismantle himself at once.
BurlMorrison Heady
In the meantime, dismantle the press and give me the plates, for I must save them.
The Barrel MysteryWilliam J. (William James) Flynn
To-morrow, when they begin to dismantle my nurseries, I do not know how I shall bear it.
An Isle in the WaterKatharine Tynan
This done, it was thought prudent to dismantle and evacuate the stockade.
The Quest of the 'Golden Hope'Percy F. Westerman
dismantle
- to take apart
- to demolish or raze
- to strip of covering