'Dismantle' definitions:
Definition of 'dismantle'
(from WordNet)
verb
Tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled" [syn: level, raze, rase, dismantle, tear down, take down, pull down] [ant: erect, put up, raise, rear, set up]
verb
Take apart into its constituent pieces [syn: disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up, break apart] [ant: assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together]
verb
Take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper" [syn: strip, dismantle]
Definition of 'Dismantle'
From: GCIDE
- Dismantle \Dis*man"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dismantled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dismantling.] [F. d['e]manteler, OF. desmanteler; pref: des- (L. dis-) + manteler to cover with a cloak, defend, fr. mantel, F. manteau, cloak. See Mantle.]
- 1. To strip or deprive of dress; to divest. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- A dismantled house, without windows or shutters to keep out the rain. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To disable; to render useless. --Comber.
- Syn: To demo?sh; raze. See {Demol?sh}. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dismantle'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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