To take something apart or down is to dismantle it. If you dismantle a computer to see what it looks like inside, you better know how to put it back together, or you might be looking at the inside of your room for awhile.
To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.
Verb
take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper"
Verb
take apart into its constituent pieces
Verb
tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled"
v. t.
To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
To disable; to render useless.
Dismantle
A dismantled house, without windows or shutters to keep out the rain.3.
To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.
Usage Examples
They went back there, looked at all the computers, asked me to come in and tell them what all the computers were for specifically so they knew how to dismantle the network I had been running.
Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.
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Other Usage ExamplesNo Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.
Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.