Dismantle

v. t.	1.	To strip or deprive of dress; to divest. [imp. & p. p. Dismantled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dismantling .]
	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.

Verb	1.	dismantle - tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled" Synonyms: pull down, rase, raze, tear down, level, take down
	2.	dismantle - take apart into its constituent pieces Synonyms: break apart, disassemble, take apart, break up
	3.	dismantle - take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper" Synonyms: strip

annihilate, atomize, bankrupt, bare, break to pieces, cleave, decimate, demolish, denudate, denude, deprive, disarray, disassemble, disintegrate, dismember, dismount, disrobe, divest, do a strip-tease, fragment, lift, make mincemeat of, pick to pieces, pull in pieces, pull to pieces, pulverize, raze, recall, reduce to rubble, rend, repeal, rescind, reverse, ruin, shatter, smash, split, strip, sunder, take down, tear apart, tear down, tear to pieces, tear to shreds, tear to tatters, total, unarray, unbuild, uncase, unclothe, undo, undrape, undress, unmake, wrack, wrack up

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