dismantling
Meaning of dismantling
- 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
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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:
Meaning analyse (a text or linguistic or conceptual system) by deconstruction:
Meaning take (something) to pieces:
Meaning pull or knock down (a building):
Meaning past of fall:
Meaning end the existence of (something) by damaging or attacking it:
Meaning make or become flat or flatter:
Meaning demolish (a building or town):
Meaning clear (ground) or destroy (buildings, trees, etc.) with a bulldozer:
Meaning demolish or destroy:
dismantling antonyms
Meaning (of people) gather together in one place for a common purpose:
Meaning construct (something) by putting parts or material together:
Words that rhyme with dismantling
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