Dismantling - English meaning

Dismantling – definitions in English dictionary

verb
Take (a machine or structure) to pieces.
Usage examples:
The engines were dismantled and the bits piled into a heap
Synonims:
Take apart Take to pieces Take to bits Pull apart Pull to pieces Deconstruct Disassemble Break up Strip (down)Knock down Pull down Tear down Demolish Fell Destroy Flatten Level Raze (to the

verb
Present participle of dismantle
Usage examples:
She dismantled the washing machine to see what the problem was, but couldn't put it back together a…

Dismantling translation into English

Dismantling: translate from English into Chinese

拆解

Dismantling: translate from English into Dutch

Ontmanteling, Demontering

Dismantling: translate from English into French

Démantèlement, Démontage

Dismantling: translate from English into German

Abbau, Demontage, Zerlegung, Abtragung

Dismantling: translate from English into Hindi

निराकरण, उखाड़ना, ढाना, तोड़-फोड़, उद्ध्वंसन, विवस्त्रीकरण

Dismantling: translate from English into Italian

Smantellamento

Dismantling: translate from English into Korean

해체

Dismantling: translate from English into Russian

Демонтаж, Разборка

Dismantling: translate from English into Spanish

Desmantelamiento, Desarme, Deshecho

Word origin

late 16th century (in the sense ‘destroy the defensive capability of a fortification’): from Old French desmanteler, from des- (expressing reversal) + manteler ‘fortify’ (from Latin mantellum

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Dismantling – similar words

dismantles

verb
Take (a machine or structure) to pieces.
Usage examples:
The engines were dismantled and the bits piled into a heap

Dismantles - all meanings in English

dismantled

verb
Take (a machine or structure) to pieces.
Usage examples:
The engines were dismantled and the bits piled into a heap

verb
Past simple and past participle of dismantle
Usage examples:
She dismantled the washing machine to see what the problem was, but couldn't put it back together a…

Dismantled - all meanings in English

dismantle

verb
Take (a machine or structure) to pieces.
Usage examples:
The engines were dismantled and the bits piled into a heap

verb
To take a machine or something complicated apart, usually to make it unable to work
Usage examples:
The government voted to dismantle its nuclear warheads., they worried that dismantling the welfare …

Dismantle - all meanings in English

Dismantling synonims

break up

phrasal verb
Break or cause to break into pieces

phrasal verb
(of a telephone conversation) to become impossible to understand because the connection is not strong enough
Usage examples:
He was on the subway when he called and started to break up before i could answer., the company has…

phrasal verb
To divide, or to divide something, into smaller parts
Usage examples:
The company has been broken up and sold off., manufacturing ceased at the factory when the original…

Break up - all meanings in English

deconstruct

verb
To break something down into its separate parts in order to understand its meaning, especially when this is different from how it was previously understood
Usage examples:
We should deconstruct the western myth of human rights., he likes to deconstruct obscure religious …

Deconstruct - all meanings in English

demolish

verb
Pull or knock down (a building).
Usage examples:
The house was demolished to make way for the shopping centre

verb
To completely destroy buildings or other structures
Usage examples:
Most of the town was demolished by the tornado., they demolished the old school to build a new one.

Demolish - all meanings in English

destroy

verb
End the existence of (something) by damaging or attacking it.
Usage examples:
The room had been destroyed by fire

verb
To damage something, esp. in a violent way, so that it can no longer be used or no longer exists
Usage examples:
You can use a shredder to destroy old bank statements., losing his job seemed to completely destroy…

Destroy - all meanings in English

disassemble

verb
Take (something) to pieces.
Usage examples:
The piston can be disassembled for transport

Disassemble - all meanings in English

fell

verb
Past of fall.

noun
An amount of timber cut.

noun
A hill or stretch of high moorland, especially in northern england.
Usage examples:
Cross fell

Fell - all meanings in English

flatten

verb
Make or become flat or flatter.
Usage examples:
Her hair had been flattened by the storm

verb
Make flat or flatter

Flatten - all meanings in English

knock down

idiom
Cause to come or go down

phrasal verb
Demolish a building or other structure.
Usage examples:
The closely packed houses were knocked down

phrasal verb
(especially of a vehicle) strike or collide with someone so as to cause them to fall to the ground.
Usage examples:
I was nearly knocked down by a bus

Knock down - all meanings in English

level

noun
A horizontal plane or line with respect to the distance above or below a given point.
Usage examples:
The front garden is on a level with this floor

adjective
Having a flat, horizontal surface.
Usage examples:
We had reached level ground

verb
Give a flat and even surface to.
Usage examples:
Contractors started levelling the ground for the new power station

Level - all meanings in English

pull down

idiom
Cause to come or go down

phrasal verb
Demolish a building.
Usage examples:
The house was pulled down and the site redeveloped

phrasal verb
Earn a specified sum of money.
Usage examples:
He was pulling down sixty grand a year

Pull down - all meanings in English

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