dismantle
verb (used with object)
to deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipment, defenses, etc..
were dismantling
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past progressiveof dismantle.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Workers sweating in the heat were dismantling the circus rides and packing them onto the backs of trucks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025
And so he literally, if you think about it, he and Constance Baker Motley and the other all-Black legal team, they literally were dismantling segregation in America through their advocacy.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2023
The Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski wrote on Twitter that Polish intelligence officials were "dismantling the Russian special services network in our country".
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2022
They were dismantling a mast climber on the 11-story Charter Square building when the exterior lift system collapsed.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 7, 2016
They were dismantling the show to exhibit in another town, and the man who knew Brady and Casey had gone forward with the first contingent.
From The Boys of the Wireless by Frank V. Webster
