dismantled

past tense of dismantle

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Recent Examples of dismantled Over the next thirty years, Nasrallah and his acolytes systemically dismantled and subsumed the sovereign Lebanese government, with even no President since 2022, and wrought havoc on the Lebanese people with little support from the population. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 29 Sep. 2024 Most of Syria’s tank units and artillery batteries have disbanded, and much of the country’s massive arsenal of chemical weapons, which Damascus began stockpiling in the 1970s to deter Israel, has been dismantled under international supervision. Amos Harel, Foreign Affairs, 8 June 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dismantled
Verb
  • There’s also the perpetual maintenance costs and the chance your road map might lead you into the wilderness, disconnected from the tech mainstream.
    Claus Jepsen, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
  • President Biden’s position on the dispute has been reflexively pro-union and disconnected from actual events.
    The Editors, National Review, 3 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • It was attached on one end to a light post and had detached from another anchor on the other side of the four-lane road.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Soon, her home began to tilt under the force of the floodwater, and a chunk of the house detached.
    Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • According to Heriot-Watt University researchers, the images confirm that an asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, creating this crater.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2024
  • But this is the last chapter of her struck-by-lightning phase, the kind of astonishing creative streak that Stevie Wonder, David Bowie and Neil Young also produced in a very different way during this decade.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 4 Oct. 2024

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“Dismantled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dismantled. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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