to dismantle
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4.2
- verb
- /dɪsˈmæntəl/
:
desmontar
- After the event, volunteers dismantled the stage and packed everything away.
- begin to dismantle
- seek to dismantle
- plan to dismantle
In order to agree with you, I have to dismantle my own ego.
- In order to agree with you, I have to dismantle my own ego.
- They are going to dismantle and abolish the Department of Education.
- Since being appointed, he is set to dismantle the agency's pesticide research apparatus.
- These people want to bankrupt America because that will dismantle democracy.
- For years, Cash has been relentlessly dismantling their Russia gate narrative.
- I can really dismantle what's going on analytically in your brain.
- He had agreed to dismantle his nuclear program, which he subsequently did.
- So he and Vannevar Bush literally as soon as the war ends, dismantle the rad Lab.
- It's a way for gaslighters to exert their reality and dismantle the person that they are gaslighting.
- And they will come up with something else until we dismantle the system, not just close the jail.
- It seems like they are taking another route to try to dismantle what's going on in our country.
- So they were going, they were actually paying to get this stuff dismantled.
- Because remember human beings, we don't just create thought, we also dismantle thought.
- I mean, do you do you know, Audrey Lord said that you can't dismantle the master's house with master's tools.
Examples
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First you have to dismantle the old scroll, then you treat the painting itself.
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So the first thing I did was I dismantled the window boxes.
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We're gonna head down and dismantle that thing now.
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OK, so let's dismantle this and see, see if we can clean it up.
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However, you must not dismantle any more cameras.
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And so working with the Palace clock team, we had to dismantle the whole of that clock mechanism.
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OK so I have dismantled the entire table.
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Well, I suggest we dismantle the apparatus.
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The tech crew has already started dismantling some of the living quarters.
Fiction book (2001) -
I just dismantled a $2,000 cappuccino machine.
Synonyms
513
1.3
To break something into two or more parts
297
1.9
To break into parts or pieces
213
2.8
To separate something into smaller parts to explain or study it
123
3.7
To destroy a building or other structure completely
66
2.7
Separate something into smaller pieces
50
3.0
To separate something into parts so it can be moved or fixed
47
2.6
To divide something into smaller parts
46
3.0
To remove something that is fixed or standing, for example stage equipment
26
3.0
To separate into pieces, for example a machine or a group
21
3.2
To break something into pieces by hand
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3.8
To take something apart into separate pieces
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4.3
To separate a part from a larger group for a special task
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7.4
Separate things that are attached to each other
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
- Formal
To work to end unfair treatment of groups with less power in society
How Disassembled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dismantle comes from old parts dis- 'remove' and mantle 'cloak', the same mantle that in English means a covering, so it gave the image of taking a covering away piece by piece. That's why dismantle now often means to take something apart into separate parts.