Word Meanings - DISMANTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

dis-) + manteler to cover with a cloak, defend, fr. mantel, F. 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,

Additional info about word: DISMANTLE

dis-) + manteler to cover with a cloak, defend, fr. mantel, F. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISMANTLE)

• Raze
• Demolish
• level
• prostrate
• overthrow
• dismantle
• subvert
• reduce
• ruin
• destroy
• debase
• Strip
• Divest
• denude
• bare
• pull off
• despoil
• disencumber
• flay
• fleece
• rob

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DISMANTLE)

• Roughen
• furrow
• disequalize
• graduate

Related words: (words related to DISMANTLE)

• DIVESTITURE
  The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
• DIVESTMENT
  The act of divesting.
• STRIPPING
  The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• DISENCUMBER
  To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen. I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Dryden.
• REDUCE
  To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
• LEVELER
  1. One who, or that which, levels. 2. One who would remove social inequalities or distinctions; a socialist.
• LEVEL
  libella level, water level, a plumb level, dim. of libra pound, measure for liquids, balance, water poise, level. Cf. Librate, 1. A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is
• DEBASED
  Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted; reversed.
• PROSTRATE
  Trailing on the ground; procumbent. (more info) prostrate; pro before, forward + sternere to spread out, throw down. 1. Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate Elyot.
• STRIP-LEAF
  Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing.
• STRIPLING
  A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. 1 Sam. xvii. 56.
• GRADUATED
  Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer. Graduated tube, bottle, cap, or glass, a vessel, usually of glass, having horizontal marks upon its sides, with figures, to indicate the
• FLEECER
  One who fleeces or strips unjustly, especially by trickery or fraund. Prynne.
• STRIPPER
  One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
• FURROWY
  Furrowed. Tennyson.
• FLEECE
  The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine. Fleece wool, wool shorn from the sheep. -- Golden fleece. See under Golden. (more info) 1. The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other
• DEMOLISHER
  One who, or that which, demolishes; as, a demolisher of towns.
• DIVESTURE
  Divestiture.
• UNSTRIPED
  Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
• SEA LEVEL
  The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.
• TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
  A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.
• UNDERFURROW
  To cover as under a furrow; to plow in; as, to underfurrow seed or manure.