0 present participle of dismantle
1 to take a machine apart or to come apart into separate pieces:
She dismantled the washing machine to see what the problem was, but couldn't put it back together again.
The good thing about the bike is that it dismantles if you want to put it in the back of the car.
Over the next three years, we will be gradually dismantling the company and selling off the profitable units.
Unions accuse the government of dismantling the National Health Service.
If you disagree, then dismantle the argument with some sort of well-argued counter-proposition.
You need to sharpen your abilities to dismantle his excuses.
Being placed high on the curtain walls, they could not fire down on those dismantling the walls at their base.
The awful irony of these kinds of community initiatives is that they are often co-opted as a justification for the dismantling of the welfare state.
The dismantling of local government by 1972 gave power over the development process entirely to the centre.
The government has effectively immunised these forces from governmental and international prosecution, without dismantling them.
Property-right regimes tend to be well entrenched and, more often than not, we are in a position of dismantling rather than creating new institutional structures.
This is less possible now, when government policy has meant the dismantling of such offices, but this does present an opportunity for designresearch.
The conclusion is less of a summary than a record of the dismantling of this religious edifice.
Therefore, consolidation was not really paid for by dismantling the welfare state in the 1980s.
