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# dismantled

verb (past and past participle of dismantle: dismantle, dismantles, dismantled, dismantling); adjective

«dismantled» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Taken apart piece by piece. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dismantled/#m1)
2. Ended or got rid of step by step, like a system, law or organisation. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dismantled/#m2)

### In the lessons

In D&T and everyday life, people dismantle a tent, a bed or a machine to move or fix it; in history, unfair systems like apartheid were dismantled; phrases: «dismantled the tent», «dismantled the system».

### Examples

- We dismantled the tent and packed it in the car. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dismantled/#x1)
- Dad dismantled my old bed before we moved house. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dismantled/#x2)
- The engineer dismantled the engine to find the problem. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dismantled/#x3)
- The fairground rides were dismantled overnight. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dismantled/#x4)
- The robot was dismantled and its parts reused. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dismantled/#x5)
- Apartheid in South Africa was dismantled in the early 1990s. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dismantled/#x6)
- The Berlin Wall was dismantled after 1989. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dismantled/#x7)

### Note

Regular verb (drop e: dismantling). Opposite: assemble, put together, build. Safety: do not dismantle electrical things that are plugged in.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «dismantled» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dismantled/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«dismantled» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/dismantled.html) on Mova free.