dismantled
/dɪsˈmæntəld/
adjective
- Having been taken apart or broken down into pieces.
- They stored the dismantled furniture in boxes until the move.
- The dismantled bicycle lay in pieces on the garage floor.
- The dismantled building was nothing but a pile of bricks and beams.
verb
- To take apart a machine, structure, or system piece by piece.
- The team dismantled the stage after the concert ended.
- The workers dismantled the old playground equipment to make room for new slides.
- She carefully dismantled the engine to find the source of the noise.
- To bring to an end; to destroy or undo something systematically.
- Over time, the company dismantled its outdated policies and started fresh.
- The new law dismantled many of the protections for local wildlife.
- The rebels dismantled the government's control in the region.
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