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DISMANTLED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dismantled mean?
• DISMANTLED (adjective)
The adjective DISMANTLED has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: DISMANTLED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Torn down and broken up
Synonyms:
demolished; dismantled; razed
Similar:
destroyed (spoiled or ruined or demolished)
Context examples
But now that peace had come, and the fleets which had swept the Channel and the Mediterranean were lying dismantled in our harbours, there was less to draw one’s fancy seawards.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I went round to my employer, found him in the same dismantled kind of room, and was told to keep at it until Wednesday, and then come again.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The furniture was scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before her flight.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The summer camp was being dismantled, and the tribe, bag and baggage, was preparing to go off to the fall hunting.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
“When I dismantled my old Pantheon and cast out Napoleon and Cæsar and their fellows, I straightway erected a new Pantheon,” she answered gravely, “and the first I installed was Dr. Jordan.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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