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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISMANTLE, v.t. [dis and mantle.]
1. To deprive of dress; to strip; to divest.
2. To loose; to throw open.
3. More generally, to deprive or strip of apparatus, or furniture; to unrig; as, to dismantle a ship.
4. To deprive or strip of military furniture; as, to dismantle a fortress.
5. To deprive of outworks or forts; as, to dismantle a town.
6. To break down; as, his nose dismantled.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: 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]
2: 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]
3: take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper" [syn: strip, dismantle]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (dismantled; dismantling) Etymology: Middle French desmanteler, from des- dis- + mantel mantle Date: 1579 1. to take to pieces; also to destroy the integrity or functioning of 2. to strip of dress or covering ; divest 3. to strip of furniture and equipment • dismantlement noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 take to pieces; pull down. 2 deprive of defences or equipment. 3 (often foll. by of) strip of covering or protection. Derivatives: dismantlement n. dismantler n. Etymology: OF desmanteler (as DIS-, MANTLE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 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. A dismantled house, without windows or shutters to keep out the rain. --Macaulay. 3. To disable; to render useless. --Comber. Syn: To demo?sh; raze. See Demol?sh.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(dismantles, dismantling, dismantled) 1. If you dismantle a machine or structure, you carefully separate it into its different parts. He asked for immediate help from the United States to dismantle the warheads. VERB: V n 2. To dismantle an organization or system means to cause it to stop functioning by gradually reducing its power or purpose. Public services of all kinds are being dismantled. VERB: V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Unrig, strip of covering, deprive of apparatus, furniture, rigging, equipments, armament, or defences.

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