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词汇 dismantle
释义 dismantle
verb
uk /dɪˈsmæn.təl/ us /dɪˈsmæn.t̬əl/
[ I or T ]
to take a machine apart or to come apart into separate pieces: 拆开,拆卸
She dismantled the washing machine to see what the problem was, but couldn't put it back together again.她拆开洗衣机想看看出了什么问题,但是却装不起来了。
The good thing about the bike is that it dismantles if you want to put it in the back of the car.这种自行车的好处是可以拆开放在汽车的后部。
[ T ]
to get rid of a system or organization, usually over a period of time: (逐渐地)废除,取消;解散
Over the next three years, we will be gradually dismantling the company and selling off the profitable units.在未来的三年内,我们将逐步解散公司并出售盈利部门。
Unions accuse the government of dismantling the National Health Service.工会指责政府企图破坏国民保健制度。
[ T ]
to show that a claim, statement or explanation is not true or correct:
If you disagree, then dismantle the argument with some sort of well-argued counter-proposition.
You need to sharpen your abilities to dismantle his excuses.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Tearing and breaking into pieces
apart
asunder
bobble
bobbly
break into pieces
chip
crack
disintegration
fall apart
fall to piecesidiom
fragment
fragmentation
fragmented
rip
snag
splinter
split
sunder
tear something apart
tear something up

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Removing and getting rid of things
Arguing & disagreeing
Refusing & rejecting

dismantle | American Dictionary


dismantle
verb[ T ]
us/dɪsˈmænt·əl/
to take a machine or something complicated apart, usually to make it unable to work:
The government voted to dismantle its nuclear warheads.
They worried that dismantling the welfare state would increase poverty.

Examples of dismantle


dismantle
The world has to be dismantled and re-assembled in order to be able to grasp, however clumsily, the experiences of another.
By 1922 the entire control apparatus had been dismantled.
Property-right regimes tend to be well entrenched and, more often than not, we are in a position of dismantling rather than creating new institutional structures.
Like the first, the second begins bluntly with the argument to be dismantled.
Indigenous land ownership and land use systems had been dismantled and replaced with private land ownership systems by colonial powers.
The original context of this interment was probably lost at the time the foundations were dismantled.
The creation of new trading blocs as the old ones are dismantled.
Political strategies likely to affect the positions of the bureaucrats themselves are, therefore, systematically obfuscated and dismantled.
Being placed high on the curtain walls, they could not fire down on those dismantling the walls at their base.
By the 1950s, it had been largely dismantled.
The government has effectively immunised these forces from governmental and international prosecution, without dismantling them.
On the other hand, hereditary cacicazgos that had already been suffering were progressively dismantled after the great rebellion.
The reform also dismantled the counties and created new and larger regions.
Beginning on the following morning we then removed and dismantled all live and dead vegetation down to the level of mineral soil.
Thus, it does not appear that over time, social democratic labor market institutions have significantly been dismantled.
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