0 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.
1 to take a machine or something complicated apart, usually to make it unable to work:
The world has to be dismantled and re-assembled in order to be able to grasp, however clumsily, the experiences of another.
By 1922 the entire control apparatus had been dismantled.
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.
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.
The original context of this interment was probably lost at the time the foundations were dismantled.
The creation of new trading blocs as the old ones are dismantled.
Political strategies likely to affect the positions of the bureaucrats themselves are, therefore, systematically obfuscated and dismantled.
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