Dismantle

Quick meaning: Dismantle is a verb meaning (transitive) To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.

Meaning

(transitive) To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To disprove a discourse, claim or argument.
2. (transitive, originally) To divest, strip of dress or covering.
3. (transitive) To remove fittings or furnishings from.

Example Sentences

If we can dismantle hate rhetoric and explain why it is, in fact, illogical, is the language no longer dangerous?

In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax.

This is most ſtrange, that ſhe, who even but now Was your beſt object, the argument of your praiſe, Balme of your age, moſt beſt, moſt deereſt, Should in this trice of time commit a thing So monſtrous, to diſmantell ſo many foulds of fauour, […]

This story of how American originality lost its way is arresting and well told. On an alternate timeline without Donald Trump in office dismantling the American scientific establishment and Elon Musk kneecapping the American state, it might have been the manifesto of a new politics.

Word Forms

• dismantles
• dismantling
• dismantled

Synonyms for dismantle

Depending on context, synonyms include level, raze, strip, break up, disassemble, pull down.

Antonyms for dismantle

Common opposites include raise, piece, set up, erect, assemble, rear.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include break up, disassemble, pull down, raze, tear down, rase.

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