0 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.
1 to take a machine or something complicated apart, usually to make it unable to work: --
Thus, it does not appear that over time, social democratic labor market institutions have significantly been dismantled.
Beginning on the following morning we then removed and dismantled all live and dead vegetation down to the level of mineral soil.
The reform also dismantled the counties and created new and larger regions.
On the other hand, hereditary cacicazgos that had already been suffering were progressively dismantled after the great rebellion.
The government has effectively immunised these forces from governmental and international prosecution, without dismantling them.
By the 1950s, it had been largely dismantled.
Being placed high on the curtain walls, they could not fire down on those dismantling the walls at their base.
Political strategies likely to affect the positions of the bureaucrats themselves are, therefore, systematically obfuscated and dismantled.
