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DISMANTLE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take off or remove

Example:

strip a wall of its wallpaper

Synonyms:

dismantle; strip

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "dismantle" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Take apart into its constituent pieces

Synonyms:

break apart; break up; disassemble; dismantle; take apart

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "dismantle" is one way to...):

destroy; destruct (do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dismantle"):

strike (disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

dismantlement; dismantling (the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Tear down so as to make flat with the ground

Example:

The building was levelled

Synonyms:

dismantle; level; pull down; rase; raze; take down; tear down

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "dismantle" is one way to...):

destroy; destruct (do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dismantle"):

bulldoze (flatten with or as if with a bulldozer)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

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