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dismantling

[dis-man-tl]

dis·man·tle

[dis-man-tl]
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.

Origin:
1570–80; < Middle French desmanteler. See dis-1, mantle

dis·man·tle·ment, noun
dis·man·tler, noun
un·dis·man·tled, adjective
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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.
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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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