Synonyms for dismantle
dɪsˈmæn tldis·man·tle

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1. dismantle

   Synonyms:
   disrobe, divest, denude, despoil, disarm, strip

   Antonyms:
   kobe, invest, drape, adorn, arrange, equip, endue

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1. level, raze, rase, dismantle, tear down, take down, pull downverb

   tear down so as to make flat with the ground

   "The building was levelled"

   Synonyms:
   demean, note, rase, bring down, let down, level off, disgrace, even out, take down, disassemble, degrade, strip, put down, down, lower, tear down, raze, take apart, push down, knock down, level, pull down, charge, break up, break apart, get down, even, point, flush, cut down

2. disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up, break apartverb

   take apart into its constituent pieces

   Synonyms:
   resolve, fragmentise, fragmentize, decompose, collapse, analyze, tear down, interrupt, raze, crash, split up, pick, take down, break up, recess, part, crock up, disunify, sever, cut off, fragment, pull down, dissect, split, adjourn, disperse, break, disrupt, rase, discerp, dismember, dissolve, level, scatter, disassemble, crack, calve, dissipate, separate, break down, break apart, take apart, dispel, analyse, crack up, strip

3. strip, dismantleverb

   take off or remove

   "strip a wall of its wallpaper"

   Synonyms:
   leach, pull down, rifle, raze, undress, plunder, bare, take down, break up, strip down, denudate, denude, pillage, ransack, peel, loot, despoil, clean, divest, level, discase, disinvest, deprive, tear down, break apart, disassemble, unclothe, take apart, strip, foray, reave, disrobe, rase, uncase

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1. • Destroy
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1. dismantleverb

   Synonyms:
   unrig, strip of covering, deprive of apparatus or furniture

2. dismantleverb

   Synonyms:
   despoil, demolish, devastate, destroy, raze, pull to pieces

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1. dismantleverb

   Synonyms:
   raze, demolish

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1. List of paraphrases for "dismantle":

   disband, decommission, dismantling, dissolve, demolish, disassemble, disrupt, remove, destroy

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How to use dismantle in a sentence?

1. President Obama:

   We will continue to hunt down terrorists and dismantle their networks, and we reserve the right to act unilaterally, as we have done relentlessly since I took office to take out terrorists who pose a direct threat to us and our allies.

2. David Pilgrim:

   You can keep me out of Harvard, but you cannot keep me uneducated. As long as there are books to read, I control my education. We will fight to dismantle the barriers in higher education, but we own the education of our minds.

3. Jim Phillips:

   This looks much more like a deal to dismantle existing sanctions than to dismantle nuclear infrastructure.

4. Erik Pevernagie:

   Feelings and emotions can dismantle gradually all lucid patterns in the back garden of our fantasy. A reflect graphic image of our dream can reveal what is hidden in the back of our mind's eye and show things we are, maybe, not ready to acknowledge. ("Back garden of a dream")

5. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

   Instead of demanding Iran significantly dismantle its nuclear capabilities and conditioning lifting sanctions on it ending its aggressions, the world powers are retreating, leaving Iran with nuclear capabilities and even allowing it to expand them later on regardless to its actions in the Middle East and around the world.