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verb (used with object), dis·man·tled, dis·man·tling.
1.
to deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipment, defenses, etc.: to dismantle a ship; to dismantle a fortress.
2.
to disassemble or pull down; take apart: They dismantled the machine and shipped it in pieces.
3.
to divest of dress, covering, etc.: The wind dismantled the trees of their leaves.
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Dismantling
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
WordNet
| dismantling | |
noun | |
| the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery); "Russia and the United States discussed the dismantling of their nuclear weapons" [ant: assemblage, assembly] |
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