Verb (used with object), : to dismantle a ship; to dismantle a fortress. ,They dismantled the machine and shipped it in pieces. ,The wind dismantled the trees of their leaves.    From Dictionary.com. 

Watching the bus service be dismantled is painful indeed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tri-Met blowing smoke on Fareless Square (Jack Bog's Blog)] Reference

Palin dismantled her own party because of her run for office.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palin, Winfrey talk about big interview] Reference

Crying now that the military and Baath party has been dismantled is “tough too bad”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » ThinkFast: May 9, 2006] Reference

The Senior Instructor code 3 to that shooter and as he ripped him a new one, he dismantled is AK47 down to the very last spring.    From Wordnik.com.  [You Always Hurt the Gun You Love] Reference

Near sundown we passed down the one long street, all battered and dismantled, which is all that is left of the old town.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma] Reference

Nor can Hezbollah be "dismantled" by an armed invasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [US middle east policy: "...a blood soaked failure"!] Reference

Several yards up the hill there was some kind of dismantled temple.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picture 58 « Special Finds « Interactive Dig Crete – Zominthos Project] Reference

Whether or not the U.S. military has been "dismantled," as Romney claims, is a matter we won't debate here.    From Wordnik.com.  [FactCheck.org Traces More Mitt Missteps] Reference

The paternal authority that the Burkeian oak symbolizes is "dismantled" by age and tempered by the beautiful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wordsworth's 'The Haunted Tree' and the Sexual Politics of Landscape] Reference

Earlier this year, Israeli officials acknowledged that 44 barriers they claimed were "dismantled" never existed.    From Wordnik.com.  [In West Bank, Checkpoints] Reference

While there's been progress, but let's face it, with more than a million abortions in the US, it hasn't been "dismantled".    From Wordnik.com.  [Abortion may be legal; criminal abortionists still abound] Reference

Israeli report "dismantled" the Turkish accusations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

Doctor Who producer warns BBC will be 'dismantled' by Tories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Saddam Hussein 's weapons of mass destruction had been "dismantled" 10 days before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

Fiancee's lawyer: Wedding between client, Craigslist slaying suspect being 'dismantled'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

Blair received intelligence that Saddam's weapons of mass destruction had been "dismantled".    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Headlines] Reference

The institution of the election process has been totally destroyed and dismantled which is an issue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ohmynews International] Reference

Doctor Who producer Russell T Davies has warned the BBC will be "dismantled" by the Conservatives if they win the election.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

But it was completely dismantled after the gulf war.    From Wordnik.com.  [What We Face: The Bottom Line] Reference

At the end of sixth grade, we dismantled our cardboard houses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living Inside the Box] Reference

But so far, not a single paramilitary squad has been dismantled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tears Of A Nation] Reference

Under U.S. pressure, the Israeli Army dismantled a dozen outposts last year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good Fences Make...] Reference

NASA dismantled the tow tub six months ago and sent the engineer who ran it back to the Navy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traveling Sharks] Reference

He also allowed Russia's electricity monopoly — Unified Energy Systems — to be dismantled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fear Factor] Reference

But did you tell Armitage that training camps in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir would be dismantled?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voices From A Hot Zone] Reference

According to Mogadishu residents, the statue was dismantled and shipped abroad, to be sold as scrap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saying a Poem for Peace] Reference

Today, he says, many settlements should be dismantled even without an agreement with the Palestinians.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Sharon's Government Is Leading Us Nowhere'] Reference

This does not mean, however, that China has completely dismantled the barriers to outgoing investment.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Lets Loose] Reference

Yet other nations have dismantled virtually identical systems, among them Italy and Spain, without bad effects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time To Bust Up The Club] Reference

If work continues at this pace, it will take 15 years for all of the other decommissioned subs to be dismantled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truth Sank With The Kursk] Reference

Maon is slated to be dismantled this week, but its residents were busily erecting a makeshift synagogue and a farmhouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unsettling Israel] Reference

When the Mao-era system was dismantled, barefoot doctors disappeared and Chinese medicine became city - and hospital-based.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why China Is Too Scared to Spend] Reference

Yet Mandela, taking a huge political risk, refuses to give in to his supporters 'demand that the team be dismantled and renamed.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Invictus’: A Whole New Ballgame] Reference

But market reforms launched in the 1980s dismantled the communes and allowed family farmers to sell their own crops for a profit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Not-So-Great Wall of China] Reference

Dozens of other cities simply dismantled their programs, which typically set aside 10 percent of construction spending for minority firms.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Second Look At Set-Asides] Reference