dismount

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/dɪsˈmaʊnt/

verb

To (cause to) get off (something).

“She carefully dismounted the horse.”

Similar
umountunmountunhorselightget offget down
Opposite
get onmount
OriginOld French desmonter →
UncommonScrabble 11
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Meanings

verbdismount (third-person singular simple present dismounts, present participle dismounting, simple past and past participle dismounted)

present singular third person dismounts · participle present dismounting · participle past dismounted · past dismounted

  1. ambitransitiveTo (cause to) get off (something).

    She carefully dismounted the horse.

    2 more examples

    She carefully dismounted from the horse.

    Cadel Evans was the first to suffer, quickly dismounting and waiting to take a bike from one of his BMC Racing team-mates, only to discover that the first of them had also punctured.

    2012 July 15, Richard Williams, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track, Guardian Unlimited
  2. ambitransitivecomputingTo make (a mounted drive) unavailable for use.

    The VMS operator tried to dismount the Unix hard drive with the DISMOUNT DISK$NFSMOUNT command, instead of umount /mnt/nfshome.

    1 more example

    PROBLEM: A volume periodically dismounts. There are two drives with one volume on each. From time to time, the second volume dismounts and the drive shuts down.

    1995, Rick Sant'Angelo, NetWare unleashed, page 1130
  3. intransitiveTo come down; to descend.

    But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount.

    1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “May. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC
  4. transitivegovernmentTo throw (cannon) off their carriages.
noundismount (plural dismounts)

plural dismounts

  1. The act of stepping down from something being ridden, such as a skateboard.

    Nice dismount!

  2. gymnasticsThe part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus.

    It was a stylish routine, let down by a sloppy dismount.

Synonyms & antonyms

Similar
umountunmount

antonym(s) of “get off something”

Opposite
get on

antonym(s) of “computing”

Opposite
mount

verbalight from (a horse)

Similar
unhorselightget offget down
Broader
descendfallgo down
Also see
get downget offlightunhorseunmount

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Old Frenchdesmonter
  2. Englishdismount

From dis- + mount, probably a calque of Old French desmonter.

More words from Old French

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Translations

Arabic تَرَجَّل
  • تَرَجَّل (tarajjal)to get off
Bulgarian слизам, слизам
  • слизам (slizam)to get off
  • слизам (slizam)to come down; to descend
Catalan descavalcar, desmuntar
  • descavalcarto get off
  • desmuntarto get off
  • sortidapart of gymnastics routine
Chinese Mandarin 下馬 /下马, 卸下
  • 下馬 /下马 (xiàmǎ)to get off
  • 卸下 (xièxià)(computing) to make a mounted drive unavailable for use
Dutch demonteer, afstappen
  • demonteerto get off
  • afstappento get off
Esperanto deĉevaliĝi
  • deĉevaliĝito get off
Finnish laskea, jalkauttaa
  • laskeato cause to get off
  • jalkauttaato cause to get off
  • laskeutuato get off
  • jalkautuato get off
  • laskeato remove (something) from its support
  • laskeato come down; to descend
  • laskeutuato come down; to descend
  • alastulopart of gymnastics routine
French démonter, démonter
  • démonterto get off
  • démonter(computing) to make a mounted drive unavailable for use
  • descendreto come down; to descend
German abnehmen, absteigen
  • abnehmento get off
  • absteigento get off
Greek κατεβεί
  • κατεβεί (kateveí)to get off
Irish tuirling
  • tuirlingto get off
Italian smontarsi
  • smontarsito get off
Latin descendō, dismontō
  • descendōto get off
  • dismontōto get off
Māori makere
  • makereto get off
Polish zsadzać, zsadzić
  • zsadzaćto cause to get off
  • zsadzićto cause to get off
  • zsiadaćto get off
  • zsiąśćto get off
Portuguese desmontar
  • desmontarto get off
Russian слеза́ть, слезть
  • слеза́ть (slezátʹ)to get off
  • слезть (sleztʹ)to get off
  • спе́шиваться (spéšivatʹsja)to get off
  • спе́шиться (spéšitʹsja)to get off
  • выса́живаться (vysáživatʹsja)to get off
  • вы́садиться (výsaditʹsja)to get off
  • демонти́ровать (demontírovatʹ)(computing) to make a mounted drive unavailable for use
  • демонти́ровать (demontírovatʹ)to remove (something) from its support
  • вынима́ть (vynimátʹ)to remove (something) from its support
  • вы́нуть (výnutʹ)to remove (something) from its support
  • снима́ть (snimátʹ)to remove (something) from its support
  • снять (snjatʹ)to remove (something) from its support
Spanish desmontar
  • desmontarto get off

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with dismount

accountamountdiscountcountmountrecountviscountunmountfountsurmountremountmiscount
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Cite this entry
APA

dismount. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dismount

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“dismount.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dismount. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dismount,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dismount.

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