dismantling
dis man tuh ling
- n the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery)
Russia and the United States discussed the dismantling of their nuclear weapons - v tear down so as to make flat with the ground
- v take apart into its constituent pieces
- v take off or remove
- Would dismantling the Fed prevent financial crises? Nope .
- And that was followed by perestroika and the Gorbachev reforms, which led eventually to the dismantling of the Soviet empire, and the disappearance of the Soviet regime.
- Why, in a Tuesday op-ed piece in the Miami Herald, would he challenge the Cuban-American elders and call for dismantling President Bush's hefty restrictions on Cuban-Americans .