disassemble

English

Etymology

dis- + assemble

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /dɪsəˈsɛmbəɫ/

Verb

disassemble (third-person singular simple present disassembles, present participle disassembling, simple past and past participle disassembled)

1. To take to pieces; to reverse the process of assembly.

   To perform the repair it was necessary to disassemble most of the mechanism.

Related terms

• assembly
• disassembly
• disassembler

Translations

to take to pieces

• Bulgarian: разглобявам (bg) (razglobjavam), демонтирам (bg) (demontiram)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拆卸 (cmn) (chāixiè), 拆開 (cmn), 拆开 (cmn) (chāikāi), 拆下 (cmn) (chāixià)

• Czech: rozebrat (cs), rozmontovat (cs)
• Danish: demontere (da)
• Dutch: demonteren (nl)
• Finnish: purkaa, purkaa osiksi

• French: désassembler (fr), démonter (fr)
• German: demontieren (de), auseinander nehmen (de)
• Japanese: 分解する (ja) (ぶんかいする, bunkai suru)
• Portuguese: desmontar (pt)
• Rapa Nui: kumekume
• Romanian: desface (ro)
• Russian: разбирать (ru) (razbirátʹ) impf., разобрать (ru) (razobrátʹ) pf., демонтировать (ru) (demontírovatʹ) impf./pf.