dismantle
dismantle is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
- 2.To disable; to render useless. Comber.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
- to demodemol
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abstain
- abstinence
- alone
- altogether
- aside
- away
- back
- bald
- bare
- bareback
- barebacked
- barefoot
- bareness
- birthday
- buff
- callow
- cast
- coot
- cover
- decorticate
- decortication
- denudation
- denude
- depilation
- desquamation
- destroy
- desuetude
- discard
- disfurnish
- dishabille
- dismiss
- dispense
- disrobe
- disusage
- disuse
- divest
- divestment
- doff
- done
- dress
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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