Meanings
present singular third person disassembles · participle present disassembling · participle past disassembled · past disassembled
- To take to pieces; to reverse the process of assembly.
To perform the repair it was necessary to disassemble most of the mechanism.
1 more example
The two machines are being built in Germany by Herrenknecht, and once completed they will be disassembled for their journey to the UK.
2020 June 3, “Network News: Vote now to choose names of HS2 Tunnel Boring Machines”, in Rail, page 11 - computingTo convert machine code to a human-readable, mnemonic form.
Synonyms & antonyms
verbtake apart into its constituent pieces
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
- Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
- Proto-Indo-European*d(w)is-
- Proto-Italic*dis-
- Latindis-
- Old Frenchdes-
- Latindis-
- Middle Englishdis-
- Englishdis-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
- Proto-Italic*ad
- Proto-Italic*ad-
- Latinad-
- Proto-Indo-European*sem-
- Proto-Indo-European*sem-h₂-lo-
- Proto-Italic*semalis
- Latinsimilis
- Latinsimulō
- Medieval Latinassimulō
- Old Frenchassembler
- Middle Englishassemblen
- Englishassemble
- Englishdisassemble
Translations
Ancient Greek διαιρέω
- διαιρέω (diairéō)to take to pieces
Bulgarian разглобявам, демонтирам
- разглобявам (razglobjavam)to take to pieces
- демонтирам (demontiram)to take to pieces
Catalan desmuntar
- desmuntarto take to pieces
Chinese Mandarin 拆卸, 拆開 /拆开
- 拆卸 (chāixiè)to take to pieces
- 拆開 /拆开 (chāikāi)to take to pieces
- 拆下 (chāixià)to take to pieces
Czech rozebrat, rozmontovat
- rozebratto take to pieces
- rozmontovatto take to pieces
Danish demontere
- demontereto take to pieces
Dutch demonteren
- demonterento take to pieces
Finnish purkaa, purkaa osiin
- purkaato take to pieces
- purkaa osiinto take to pieces
- hajottaa osiinto take to pieces
French désassembler, démonter
- désassemblerto take to pieces
- démonterto take to pieces
German demontieren, auseinandernehmen
- demontierento take to pieces
- auseinandernehmento take to pieces
Greek αποσυναρμολογώ
- αποσυναρμολογώ (aposynarmologó)to take to pieces
Italian disassemblare, smontare
- disassemblareto take to pieces
- smontareto take to pieces
Japanese 分解する
- 分解する (bunkai suru)to take to pieces
Latin distrahō
- distrahōto take to pieces
Māori whakahoro
- whakahoroto take to pieces
Portuguese desmontar
- desmontarto take to pieces
Romanian desface, dezasambla
- desfaceto take to pieces
- dezasamblato take to pieces
- demontato take to pieces
Russian разбира́ть, разобра́ть
- разбира́ть (razbirátʹ)to take to pieces
- разобра́ть (razobrátʹ)to take to pieces
- демонти́ровать (demontírovatʹ)to take to pieces
Spanish desmontar, desensamblar
- desmontarto take to pieces
- desensamblarto take to pieces
- desmondongarto take to pieces
Swedish demontera, montera ner
- demonterato take to pieces
- montera nerto take to pieces
Cite this entry
disassemble. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disassemble
“disassemble.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disassemble. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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