0 past simple and past participle of dismantle --
1 to take a machine apart or to come apart into separate pieces: --
You need to sharpen your abilities to dismantle his excuses.
If you disagree, then dismantle the argument with some sort of well-argued counter-proposition.
Unions accuse the government of dismantling the National Health Service.
Over the next three years, we will be gradually dismantling the company and selling off the profitable units.
The good thing about the bike is that it dismantles if you want to put it in the back of the car.
She dismantled the washing machine to see what the problem was, but couldn't put it back together again.
In addition to these specific regional policies, the central government dismantled the organizationally inefficient collective farming.
Furthermore, to consolidate her personal power, she dismantled the structure of elections within her own party.
Beginning on the following morning we then removed and dismantled all live and dead vegetation down to the level of mineral soil.
By the 1950s, it had been largely dismantled.
Like the first, the second begins bluntly with the argument to be dismantled.
Indigenous land ownership and land use systems had been dismantled and replaced with private land ownership systems by colonial powers.
On the other hand, hereditary cacicazgos that had already been suffering were progressively dismantled after the great rebellion.
Some forms of weaving establishment appear to have been impermanent entities, which were in effect dismantled and then reassembled as market conditions dictated.
