dismantle
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
tear down so as to make flat with the ground
The building was levelled
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- erect antonym
- tearing down derivation
- horizontal surface derivation
- spirit level derivation
- wrecking derivation
Sense 2 verb
take apart into its constituent pieces
Types & categories
- destroy hypernym
Related & opposite
- assemble antonym
- dismantling derivation
Sense 3 verb
take off or remove
strip a wall of its wallpaper
Types & categories
- remove hypernym
Related & opposite
- uncovering derivation
- stripper derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | erect |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | tearing down |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | horizontal surface |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | spirit level |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | wrecking |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | destroy |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | bulldoze |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | assemble |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dismantling |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | destroy |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | uncovering |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | stripper |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | remove |