dismantle

dismantle is a 9-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To strip or deprive of dress; to divest. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.
2. transitive verb. 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.
3. transitive verb. To disable; to render useless.
4. verb. take off or remove

   "strip a wall of its wallpaper"

   Synonyms: strip

5. verb. take apart into its constituent pieces

   Synonyms: disassemble

6. verb. tear down so as to make flat with the ground

   "The building was levelled"

   Synonyms: level, rase, raze

Synonyms

strip, disassemble, level, rase, raze

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in dismantle:

dentalism

Common word forms

dismantled, dismantler, dismantles, dismantling, dismantlement

Words from these letters

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