dismantle

English edit

Etymology edit

From Middle French desmanteler, itself from des- (“dis-”), mantel (“coat”) + -er (verbal suffix).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /dɪsˈmæntəl/
(UK) IPA^(key): [dɪsˈmæntʰəɫ]
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(Cockney) IPA^(key): [dɪsˈmænʔəɫ]
(US) IPA^(key): [dɪsˈmæ̃nɾɫ̩], [dɪsˈmæ̃nɫ̩]
Rhymes: -æntəl

Verb edit

dismantle (third-person singular simple present dismantles, present participle dismantling, simple past and past participle dismantled)

(transitive, originally) To divest, strip of dress or covering.
- c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […], published 1608, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
  This is most ſtrange, that ſhe, who even but now
  Was your beſt object, the argument of your praiſe,
  Balme of your age, moſt beſt, moſt deereſt,
  Should in this trice of time commit a thing
  So monſtrous, to diſmantell ſo many foulds of fauour, […]
(transitive) To remove fittings or furnishings from.
(transitive) To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.
- 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly‎^[1], volume 188, number 23, page 19:
  In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax.
(transitive) To disprove a discourse, claim or argument.
- 2001, Jeffrey Morgan, “The Rhetoric of Hate”, in Learning for Justice, number 20:
  If we can dismantle hate rhetoric and explain why it is, in fact, illogical, is the language no longer dangerous?

Derived terms edit

Translations edit

divest

Bulgarian: събличам (bg) (sǎbličam)
Dutch: uitkleden (nl)
Finnish: riisua (fi)
German: entmanteln (cable), entblättern (de) (humorously)
Ido: nudigar (io)
Japanese: 脱がせる (ja) (ぬがせる, nugaseru)
Russian: раздева́ть (ru) impf (razdevátʹ), разде́ть (ru) pf (razdétʹ)
Swedish: avkläda (sv), avkraga (sv), klä av (sv), ta av (sv)

remove fittings or furnishings

Bulgarian: оголвам (bg) (ogolvam), разоборудвам (razoborudvam)
Finnish: riisua (fi)
German: abwracken (de), ausschlachten (de) (coll.)
Greek: απογυμνώνω (el) (apogymnóno)
Russian: разбира́ть (ru) impf (razbirátʹ), разобра́ть (ru) pf (razobrátʹ)
Swedish: nedmontera (sv), demontera (sv)

take apart

Armenian: քանդել (hy) (kʻandel), ապամոնտաժել (hy) (apamontažel)
Bulgarian: разглобявам (bg) (razglobjavam)
Catalan: desmuntar (ca)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 拆 (caak³)

Mandarin: 拆卸 (zh) (chāixiè), 拆開／拆开 (zh) (chāikāi), 拆下 (zh) (chāixià)
Dutch: afbreken (nl), demonteren (nl), ontmantelen (nl)
Finnish: purkaa osiin, purkaa (fi), hajottaa (fi)
French: démonter (fr), démanteler (fr)
German: demontieren (de), auseinander nehmen
Greek: αποσυναρμολογώ (el) (aposynarmologó), ξεμοντάρω (el) (xemontáro)
Hebrew: לפרק (lefareq)
Hungarian: szétszed (hu)
Ingrian: hajottaa
Italian: smontare (it)
Japanese: 分解する (ja) (ぶんかいする, bunkai suru)
Maori: whakahoro
Norwegian:
Bokmål: demontere

Nynorsk: demontere
Polish: rozłożyć (pl) pf, rozkładać (pl) impf, rozebrać (pl) pf, rozbierać (pl) impf, rozmontować pf
Portuguese: desmontar (pt), desmantelar, desfazer (pt), desmanchar (pt)
Rapa Nui: kumekume
Russian: разбира́ть (ru) impf (razbirátʹ), разобра́ть (ru) pf (razobrátʹ), демонти́ровать (ru) impf or pf (demontírovatʹ)
Spanish: desmontar (es), desensamblar (es)
Swedish: avveckla (sv), isärtaga, ta isär, demontera (sv), nedmontera (sv)
ǃXóõ: khàla

References edit

Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams edit

dentalism