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Dismantled

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.]

  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 demo?sh; raze. See Demol?sh.

Wiktionary
dismantled

vb. (en-past of: dismantle)

WordNet
dismantled

adj. torn down and broken up [syn: demolished, razed]

Wikipedia
Dismantled

Dismantled (born Gary Zon) is an electronic music artist from the United States.

Usage examples of "dismantled".

While Triv and Varian had been away, Portegin dismantled the damaged shuttle comunit.

The environmental system had had to be completely dismantled and refitted, filling the two lower decks with a terrible stench for several days.

She had seen the sled being dismantled, but would the Guild technicians have rescued the record for the data that might be retrieved?

And the vat and its attendant paraphernalia had been dismantled and reassembled in different form entirely.

The processing equipment in the slaughterhouse had been completely dismantled although they'd have to have serious overcrowding before anyone who knew what had happened in that plant would live in it.

There was even diving equipment and two water craft, dismantled and packed for transport.

And the interior of the transport still stinks to high heaven, so it was dismantled and it's been reconstructed in the hangar.

Brian’s ship models had been dismantled, and he, too, fretted about finding the proper glue.

The shuttles, Zi, the shuttles can be dismantled and their components used for our specific purposes here and now.

Stev had gone on a three-day bender and been found asleep in the dismantled shuttle.

It’ll be a one-way trip for the shuttles: they’ll be dismantled for parts.

There was a lot more talking while the tables were cleared, dismantled and stored to one side, chairs rearranged and the younger children taken off to their beds.

Wansor's dancing like a sun-crazed wherry to get his hands on the distance-viewer, all the time wailing that he needn't've dismantled the first apparatus.

He dismantled the sheets of woven grass and hid them in the thick leaves of nearby bushes.

Breide retorted that he hadn't even dismantled the buildings that were to provide the material for the extensions, so what was Esselin bleating about?