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disassemble

[dis-uh-sem-buhl] / ˌdɪs əˈsɛm bəl /
VERB
take apart
Synonyms


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For nearly half an hour, the soldier demonstrates different types of ammunition and how to assemble and disassemble the Kalashnikov using illustrated boards set up behind him on Haft-e Tir Square.

From Barron's ● May 19, 2026

“This Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims — to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts,” Rufe wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026

"I saw this guy literally disassemble himself in front of me, and now I'm seeing him again."

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2025

The project to disassemble and eventually rebuild the chapel is expected to take four years.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2024

Then came the things I could disassemble, like the crew seats, several of the backup systems, and the control panels.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

As she stomps and shouts and disassembles, I sit here, still cross-legged on the bed, and wonder whether it’s too late in the day to jump on a train and head into work.

From The Verge ● Aug. 1, 2022

Located in Tar Heel, N.C., that slaughterhouse disassembles about 32,000 hogs a day.

From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2022

Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins In her bold and strange novel, Watkins disassembles the mythology of the American west, paying particular attention to its brutal expansionism and unquestioned promise of personal reinvention.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 2020

The founder of Munro & Associates, a small Detroit-area firm that disassembles and analyzes new cars, said, “A lot of crow is being eaten around here.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2018

The energy yield depends on the amount of uranium and the time it can be held together before it disassembles itself.

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

The German firm said it had disassembled the rocket to carry out investigations.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

She digitally "disassembled" the fossil one bone at a time and uncovered several anatomical features that differed from known Hesperosuchus specimens.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026

It should work a lot like email, in which data composed of bits and bytes exist as a whole in one place, are disassembled, and then electronically transmitted to another place where they are reassembled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

“The Eaton Fire could not have occurred if SCE had simply disassembled and removed Structure M16T1,” the lawyers added.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

The bike lay disassembled in less than ten minutes.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

From all accounts, Israeli and American military strikes are meeting and even exceeding their goals of disassembling the regime’s infrastructure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026

The team is disassembling at a rate fans are apprehensive about.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026

There, Mark finds Gemma serenely disassembling the crib, and coaxes her to run with him.

From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2025

From San Diego to San Francisco, state and local workers began disassembling makeshift shelters and camps and displacing the homeless people living in them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2024

The next time we saw him, he was in uniform, assigned to motion study training in assembling and disassembling the Lewis machine gun and other automatic weapons.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey


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