dismantle
verb/dɪsˈmæntəl/
Frequency rank: #10,165 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
To take apart or break down into components.
Example sentence
The workers began to dismantle the old bridge piece by piece.
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