[with obj.](常作 be dismantled)take to pieces 拆散 the engines were dismantled and the bits piled into a heap. 发动机被拆散了,零件堆了一堆。 the old regime was dismantled. 旧政体瓦解了。
派生 dismantlement noun dismantler noun 语源
late 16th cent. (in the sense 'destroy the defensive capability of a fortification'): from Old French desmanteler, from des- (expressing reversal) + manteler 'fortify' (from Latin mantellum 'cloak')