DISMANTLE • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Dismantle

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

verb

Dismantle v. t. (past & past part. dismantled; pres. part. dismantling)

To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.

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. "A dismantled house, without windows or shutters to keep out the rain."

To disable; to render useless.

Synonyms: To demolish; raze. See Demolish.

See images of 'Dismantle'

Etymology of 'Dismantle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Dismantle" Quotes from Famous Books

... worship remarked that such is never the Bruce's policy? Three years ago, he had not force enough to fortify the castles he took from the English, and leaving them standing did but offer safe harbors for the foe, so it was ever his custom to dismantle, as utterly to prevent their reestablishment; and if he did this with the castles of his own friends, who all, as the Douglas saith, 'love better to hear the lark sing than the mouse squeak,' it was not likely he would spare Buchan's. But there was one castle, I remember, cost him a bitter ...

— The Days of Bruce Vol 1 - A Story from Scottish History • Grace Aguilar

... animated debate now arose. Various methods of accomplishing what appeared to be the settled determination of all—that of preventing the sitting of the court—were suggested. Some proposed to dismantle or tear down the Court House; others were for arming the people, seizing the building, and bidding open defiance to their opponents. At this stage of the deliberations, Colonel Carpenter, whose character had secured him great influence, rose, ...

— The Rangers - [Subtitle: The Tory's Daughter] • D. P. Thompson

... at Lichtenburg was very busy, occupied by those miserable duties that affront the softer feelings. To dismantle and sell the moving home that, as though by a miracle, has been nightly disposed through hundreds of miles of road travel, and to part from horses that have served you well and shared your dangers, if not your alarms, is to suffer a new ...

— The Relief of Mafeking • Filson Young

Words linked to "Dismantle" : tear down, take apart, dismantling, destroy, bulldoze, withdraw, pull down, break up, dismantlement, level, destruct, assemble, raze, take down, take, raise, disassemble