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demount

[ dee-mount ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to remove from a mounting, mount, mounting, setting, or place of support, as a gun.
  2. to take apart; disassemble.


demount

/ diːˈmaʊnt /

verb

  1. tr to remove (a motor, gun, etc) from its mounting or setting
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • deˈmountable, adjective
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Other Words From

  • de·mounta·ble adjective
  • de·mounta·bili·ty noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of demount1

First recorded in 1930–35; de- + mount 1
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Example Sentences

“The real choice was either to demount the whole thing, which you could have done with a 25,000 plan which would have been pretty unsatisfactory. Or you could have knocked the whole thing down,” he says.

Like Cooper's, his chairs and tables easily demount to fit into neat packages.

It seems the demountable rims refused to demount, or whatever it is they are expected to do when you take a tire off.

Well if it do not, Pilatre-like, explode; and demount all the more tragically!—So, riding on windbags, will men scale the Empyrean.

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