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Separate night ends in gloomy quarter
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dismantle
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive originally English) To divest, strip of dress or covering. 2 (context transitive English) To remove fittings or furnishings from. 3 (context transitive English) To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from Middle French desmanteler "to tear down the walls of a fortress," literally "strip of a cloak," from des- "off, away" (see dis- ) + manteler "to cloak" (see mantle ). Related: Dismantled ; dismantling .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled" [syn: level , raze , rase , tear down , take down , pull down ] [ant: raise ] take apart into its constituent pieces [syn: disassemble , take apart , break up , break apart ] [ant: ...
Usage examples of dismantle.
There was no way in which the aircraft capable of carrying the dismantled pieces of the airframe, an extra forty-five thousand pounds weight, could land and take off at the lake.
It needed replacing, and with a curt warning to Angevine, and to the sound of her horrified yells, he began to dismantle it.
As he dismantled the hive a blacksnake approached him, but he was able to grab its tail and crack it like a whip, easily smashing its head on a branch.
The new theory concerning the Club Cadiz murders was to be kept from the press, in return for the dismantling of the Q-ray machine.
They were greeted by Desis One and Two, who flanked a long coffee table on which there were four MAC-10 machine pistols, twenty magazine clips, sixteen grenades, four miniaturized radios, two flamethrowers, four infrared binoculars, and a dismantled egg-shaped bomb that could blow up at least a quarter of the state of New Hampshire - the lesser southeastern part.
Callum dismantles the older gauge to save it from further damage and emerges out into the howling night, ducking against the spray as he locks the door behind him again.
One sees how much, from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, the hegemonism of possessing minorities, unveiled by Marx and Engels, and the anthropocentrism dismantled by Freud are accompanied by europocentrism in the area of human and social sciences, and more particularly in those in direct relationship with non-European peoples.
I intend to leave it that way, though the Chatterford gates will be soon dismantled after tomorrow.
Soon all the stands would be screened with mats or boarded up or dismantled.
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty permanent, and were working to safeguard and ultimately dismantle nuclear weapons and materials under the Nunn-Lugar program.
Overdepressed in defeat, as oversanguine in victory, the King of the Franks ordered the catapults and mangonels he had brought to the siege of Arques dismantled, and retired to seclusion to put his mind in order and recast his shattered plans.
Why, clearly the occupation of Fort Sumter, and the dismantling of Fort Moultrie by Major Anderson, in the face of your pledges, and without explanation or practical disavowal.
This slope is probably formed by the ruins of the gateway and tower having been pitched into the ditch, as the readiest way of getting rid of them when the castle was dismantled afterwards.
The huge, sleek turbopump designed to bring return coolant from the heat exchanger to the number one engine had been partly dismantled by Francis and her riggers.
The enormous antennas were dismantled and the intercept operators sent back to NSA a decade later, in 1977.