dismantled
part of speech
verb (past and past participle of dismantle: dismantle, dismantles, dismantled, dismantling); adjective
meaning for a pupil
1) Taken apart piece by piece. tree →
2) Ended or got rid of step by step, like a system, law or organisation. tree →
sense in the lessons
In D&T and everyday life, people dismantle a tent, a bed or a machine to move or fix it; in history, unfair systems like apartheid were dismantled; phrases: «dismantled the tent», «dismantled the system».
examples
- We dismantled the tent and packed it in the car. tree →
- Dad dismantled my old bed before we moved house. tree →
- The engineer dismantled the engine to find the problem. tree →
- The fairground rides were dismantled overnight. tree →
- The robot was dismantled and its parts reused. tree →
- Apartheid in South Africa was dismantled in the early 1990s. tree →
- The Berlin Wall was dismantled after 1989. tree →
note
Regular verb (drop e: dismantling). Opposite: assemble, put together, build. Safety: do not dismantle electrical things that are plugged in.
Trees and pragmatics
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