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dismantled

dismantled

4.7
Taken apart so it no longer works as a whole
  • adjective
  • /dɪsˈmæntəld/
translation icon : desmantelado
  • I have short thin hair now it is my natural hair and I look a little bit dismantled because I'm breaking out.

And then it's quite dismantled after the transition to menopause.

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Examples

  • And then it's quite dismantled after the transition to menopause.

  • Throughout his campaign, both by sea and land, his army's great siege engines were dismantled, transported, and then reconstructed at various locations.

  • It's about that the system needs to be dismantled as a whole.

  • When sleep is really, really dismantled and meaning it's happening in various times of day or night.

  • Every time that something solid is put into doubt or dismantled, something else open up and allows us to see farther than we could before.

  • Now I come from Poland and democracy in Poland is presently being dismantled at a terrible speed.

  • It couldn't sort of be just dismantled and you know, put together in full and some other place.

  • And of course, Diedrich eventually would plead guilty to criminal offenses and the synonym would be dismantled and would fade away.

  • The old factory was completely dismantled after it was deemed unsafe for production.

  • After the event, the stage was promptly dismantled to make way for the next show.

Synonyms

fragmented
vsdismantled
9 4.4

Not whole because it is broken into separate parts

is about disabling by removing parts rather than mere division
severed
vsdismantled
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1 5.8

Cut off from the rest by a sharp object

is separated by removing parts rather than being cleanly cut off
shattered
vsdismantled
1 4.8

Feeling very upset because hopes or feelings are destroyed

involves removing parts to stop function rather than causing emotional harm
uncoupled
vsdismantled
1 4.9

Not joined to something it was attached to before

is disconnected at connections while parts may still be intact
demolished
vsdismantled
4.1

A building that has been torn down and broken up

is done by careful removal of parts rather than violent ruin
razed
vsdismantled
6.7

Destroyed completely so nothing is left standing

is made unusable by separating parts rather than flattening to rubble
broken to pieces
vsdismantled
3.5

Made into many small pieces so it cannot be fixed

is taken apart by removing pieces rather than being simply smashed
destroyed
vsdismantled
2.8

Very badly damaged and no longer usable, often after a war or storm

is made nonfunctional by removing components rather than total ruin

Antonyms

81 3.2

Working correctly so it can be used

How Dismantled

ruined
1 3.1
dismantled
4.7
broken
31 1.0
intact
304 3.7

Surface Forms

dismantled positive

Morphology

dismantled = dismantle (transparent) = dis + mantle + ed

The relation 'dismantle' → 'dismantled' is a regular past-participial formation, but the internal segmentation dis- + mantle is not fully obvious to learners because 'mantle' primarily means 'cloak/cover'.

Etymology

Dismantled comes from the parts dis- meaning 'undo' and mantle meaning 'cloak'. One helpful image is that it first meant to 'take off a cloak' and later came to mean 'take something apart', so a dismantled object is taken to pieces or no longer works.