DISMANTLE, verb transitive [dis and mantle.] 1. To deprive of dress; to strip; to divest. 2. To loose; to throw open. 3. More generally, to deprive or strip of apparatus, or furniture; to unrig; as, to dismantle a ship. 4. To deprive or strip of military furniture; as, to dismantle a fortress. 5. To deprive of outworks or forts; as, to dismantle a town. 6. To break down; as, his nose dismantled.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI