Associations to the word «Dismantle»

Wiktionary

DISMANTLE, verb. (transitive) (originally) To divest, strip of dress or covering.
DISMANTLE, verb. (transitive) To remove fittings or furnishings from.
DISMANTLE, verb. (transitive) To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.

Dictionary definition

DISMANTLE, verb. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled".
DISMANTLE, verb. Take apart into its constituent pieces.
DISMANTLE, verb. Take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope