dismantle
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /dɪsˈmæntəl/
- (British) IPA: [dɪsˈmæntʰəɫ]
- (Cockney) IPA: [dɪsˈmænʔəɫ]
- (America) IPA: [dɪsˈmæ̃nɾɫ̩], [dɪsˈmæ̃nɫ̩]
dismantle (dismantles, present participle dismantling; past and past participle dismantled)
- (transitive, originally) To divest, strip of dress or covering.
- c. 1603–1606, [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: Printed for Nathaniel Butter, […], published 1608, OCLC 54196469 ↗, [Act I, scene i] ↗:
- This is most ſtrange, that ſhe, who even but now / Was your beſt object, the argument of your praiſe, / Balme of your age, moſt beſt, moſt deereſt, / Should in this trice of time commit a thing / So monſtrous, to diſmantell ſo many foulds of fauour, {{...}
- (transitive) To remove fittings or furnishings from.
- (transitive) To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.
- Russian: раздева́ть
- German: abwracken
- Russian: разбира́ть
- French: démonter, démanteler
- German: demontieren, auseinander nehmen
- Italian: smontare
- Portuguese: desmantelar, destruir, desfazer, desmanchar, desmontar
- Russian: разбира́ть
- Spanish: desmantelar
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