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Noun: dismantling  `dis'man-tu-ling
  1. The act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery)
    "Russia and the United States discussed the dismantling of their nuclear weapons"
    - dismantlement, disassembly
Verb: dismantle  dis'man-t(u)l
  1. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground
    - level, raze, rase, tear down, take down, pull down
     
  2. Take apart into its constituent pieces
    - disassemble, take apart, break up, break apart
     
  3. Take off or remove
    - strip

Derived forms: dismantlings

Type of: activity, destroy, destruct, remove, spifflicate, spiflicate, take, take away, withdraw