Dismantle

Verb

 * 1) (original sense) To divest, strip of dress or covering
 * 2) To remove fittings or furnishings from
 * 3) To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces

Synonyms for Dismantle
take apart, take down, strip, unrig, raze, demolish.

Antonyms for Dismantle
assemble, build, construct, raise.

Derived terms

 * dismantlement

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

Pronunciation
GRE word

Etymology
From desmanteler, itself from des- 'dis-' + mantel 'mantle, garment'

Translations

 * Bulgarian: събличам
 * Dutch:


 * Japanese:, 脱がせる


 * Bulgarian: оголвам, разоборудвам


 * German:


 * Bulgarian: разглобявам
 * Dutch: afbreken, demonteren, ontmantelen
 * Finnish: purkaa, hajottaa osiinsa
 * French: ,
 * German: demontieren, auseinandernehmen


 * Hebrew: לפרק (lefareq)
 * Hungarian: szétszed
 * Japanese:
 * Spanish: desmantelar
 * Swedish: avveckla