dismantling

Meaning of dismantling

verb, gerund or present participle
  1. take (a machine or structure) to pieces.
    the engines were dismantled and the bits piled into a heap
    the old regime was dismantled

late 16th century (in the sense ‘destroy the defensive capability of a fortification’): from Old French desmanteler, from des- (expressing reversal) + manteler ‘fortify’ (from Latin mantellum ‘cloak’).

Information about dismantling

  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of dismantling

dis-man-tling

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • dismantling is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

dismantling synonyms

Meaning dismantlement:

dismantlement, disassembly

Meaning analyse (a text or linguistic or conceptual system) by deconstruction:

deconstruct

Meaning take (something) to pieces:

disassemble

Meaning pull or knock down (a building):

demolish

Meaning past of fall:

fell

Meaning end the existence of (something) by damaging or attacking it:

destroy

Meaning make or become flat or flatter:

flatten

Meaning demolish (a building or town):

level

Meaning clear (ground) or destroy (buildings, trees, etc.) with a bulldozer:

bulldoze

Meaning demolish or destroy:

unbuild

dismantling antonyms

Meaning (of people) gather together in one place for a common purpose:

assemble

Meaning construct (something) by putting parts or material together:

build

Words that rhyme with dismantling

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