Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dismantling"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dismantle \Dis*man"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dismantled}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Dismantling}.] [F. d['e]manteler, OF.
desmanteler; pref: des- (L. dis-) + manteler to cover with a
cloak, defend, fr. mantel, F. manteau, cloak. See {Mantle}.]
1. To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.
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. --Comber.
Syn: To demo?sh; raze. See {Demol?sh}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dismantling
n : the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery);
"Russia and the US discussed the dismantling of their
nuclear weapons" [syn: {dismantlement}, {disassembly}]
[ant: {assembly}, {fabrication}]
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