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Answer for the clue "Take off or remove ", 11 letters:
dismantling

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Word definitions for dismantling in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dismantle \Dis*man"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dismantled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dismantling .] [F. d['e]manteler, OF. desmanteler; pref: des- (L. dis-) + manteler to cover with a cloak, defend, fr. mantel, F. manteau, cloak. See Mantle .] To strip or deprive ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery); "Russia and the United States discussed the dismantling of their nuclear weapons" [syn: dismantlement , disassembly ] [ant: assembly , fabrication ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act by which something is dismantled. vb. (present participle of dismantle English)

Usage examples of dismantling.

His efforts to escape the endless loop and subsequent dismantling by investigating roboticists would require leaving as slight a trail as possible.

Iraq and a dismantling of the no-fly zones to allow Baghdad to resume its previous trade with Turkey and reassert its sovereignty over the Kurdish north.

Those in favor of dismantling the first bridgehead were called, by someone, Seekers of the Holy Grail, and the name of Grail stuck to that area of opencast mining.

Extrapolating -- and she was very good at extrapolating -- the weapon would have no trouble dismantling a planet even at a range of hundreds of AU.

Keselo was fairly sure he’d just be in the way if he stood watching the Maags dismantling the top of the stairway, so he went back through the gap to the little glade at the top of the ravine.

Of course that had meant dismantling Ludwig: when I saw him next he was just a pile of useless junk.

Jacen had become the dismantling void that was drawing Onimi into a slender thread, attenuating him to the point of infinite smallness.

She's by no means the first upload or partial, but she's the first gust front of the storm of power that will arrive when the arrogant ones achieve their goal of dismantling the planets and turning dumb and uninhabited mass into brainpower throughout the observable reaches of the universe.

He switched to his C drive, accessed the built-in diagnostic, discovered that a virus wasbusy dismantling the software on his hard drive.

But the king of Sweden, who was also the emperor of the Confederated Principalities of Europe, had refused to direct its dismantling.

It wearies me to imagine the preparations that will prove necessary, what dismantlings and shovelings, what wounds worked open for the sudden closure.

But one of the many people who regularly brought unpleasant news of the deluge had told her that the company was dismantling its dispensaries to move them to where it was not raining.

We went upstairs to see how far the art director and his department had gone with dismantling the Jockey Club enquiry room set, ready to construct an approximation of the Athenaeum dining room in the space.

In the street outside, two kids in bomber jackets, neither of them above ten years old, and both wearing nearly-new Nike trainers that had come down the chimney with Santa, were dismantling a black and silver mountain bike whose owner had optimistically left it chained to a parking meter.

They had been dismantling part of the rear bridge wall, and had forced a passage through some of the vital innards of the ship.