English-Thai Dictionary
dismantle
VT รื้อ ถอด ออก แยก ออก เอา ออก disassemble dismember assemble put together rue
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
DISMANTLE
v.t.[dis and mantle. ] 1. To deprive of dress; to strip; to divest.
2. To loose; to throw open.
3. More generally, to deprive or strip of apparatus, or furniture; to unrig; as, to dismantle a ship.
4. To deprive or strip of military furniture; as, to dismantle a fortress.
5. To deprive of outworks or forts; as, to dismantle a town.
6. To break down; as, his nose dismantled.
DISMANTLED
pp. Divested; stripped of furniture; unrigged.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
DISMANTLE
Dis *man "tle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dismantled; p. pr. & vb. n.Dismantling. ] Etym: [F. démanteler, OF. desmanteler; pref: des- (L. dis- ) + manteler to cover with a cloak, defend, fr. mantel, F. manteau, cloak. See Mantle. ]
1. To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.
2. To strip of furniture and equipments, guns, etc. ; to unrig; to strip of walls or outworks; to break down; as, to dismantle a fort, a town, or a ship. A dismantled house, without windows or shutters to keep out the rain. Macaulay.
3. To disable; to render useless. Comber.
Syn. -- To demoDemol.
New American Oxford Dictionary
dismantle
dis man tle |disˈmantl dɪsˈmæn (t )l | ▶verb [ with obj. ] take (a machine or structure ) to pieces: the engines were dismantled and the bits piled into a heap | figurative : the old regime was dismantled. DERIVATIVES dis man tle ment noun, dis man tler |-t (ə )lər |noun ORIGIN late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘destroy the defensive capability of (a fortification )’): from Old French desmanteler, from des- (expressing reversal ) + manteler ‘fortify ’ (from Latin mantellum ‘cloak ’).
Oxford Dictionary
dismantle
dis |man ¦tle |dɪsˈmant (ə )l | ▶verb [ with obj. ] take (a machine or structure ) to pieces: the engines were dismantled and the bits piled into a heap | figurative : the old regime was dismantled. DERIVATIVES dismantlement noun, dismantler noun ORIGIN late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘destroy the defensive capability of a fortification ’): from Old French desmanteler, from des- (expressing reversal ) + manteler ‘fortify ’ (from Latin mantellum ‘cloak ’).
American Oxford Thesaurus
dismantle
dismantle verb the old opera house was dismantled: take apart, pull apart, pull to pieces, disassemble, break up, break down, strip (down ); knock down, pull down, demolish. ANTONYMS assemble, build.
Oxford Thesaurus
dismantle
dismantle verb he began to dismantle the revolver | the old opera house was dismantled: take apart, take to pieces, take to bits, pull apart, pull to pieces, deconstruct, disassemble, break up, strip (down ); knock down, pull down, tear down, demolish, fell, destroy, flatten, level, raze (to the ground ), bulldoze; rare unbuild. ANTONYMS assemble, build.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
dismantle
dis man tle /dɪsmǽnt (ə )l /動詞 他動詞 1 〈機械 装置 構造物など 〉を分解する, 解体する .2 〈制度 組織など 〉を徐々に廃止する, 解体する .