desmontar

v.

1 to take apart or to pieces (desarmar) (machine).

2 to unseat.

el caballo desmontó al jinete the horse threw its rider

desmontó al niño de la bicicleta he took the boy off the bicycle

3 to dismount, to disassemble, to dismantle, to take apart.

El carpintero desmontó los gabinetes The carpenter dismounted the cabinets

4 to remove.

Los chicos desmontaron las estructuras The kids removed the structures.

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desmontar

► verbo transitivo

1 (desarmar) to take to pieces, take down, dismantle

2 (edificio) to knock down

3 (arma) to uncock

4 (cortar en un bosque) to clear

5 (allanar) to level

6 (quitar de la montura) to unset, unmount

7 (motor) to strip

► verbo intransitivo

1 (del caballo) to dismount (de, -)

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verb

1) to dismantle

2) dismount

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1. VT

1) (=desarmar) [gen] to dismantle; [+ mueble, estantería] to take apart; [+ motor] to strip down; [+ máquina] to take apart, take to pieces; [+ tienda de campaña] to take down; (Náut) [+ vela] to take down

2) [+ terreno] (=nivelar) to level; (=quitar los árboles a) to clear

3) [+ jinete] to throw, unseat

desmontar a algn de un vehículo — to help sb down from a vehicle

4) (Mil) [+ escopeta] to uncock; [+ artillería] to knock out

2.

VI to dismount, alight (de from)

3.

See:

desmontarse

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1.

verbo transitivo

a) (desarmar) <mueble/mecanismo> to dismantle, take apart; <motor/rifle> to strip (down); <tienda de campaña> to take down

b) (separar) <forro/pieza> to detach, remove

2.

desmontar vi jinete to dismount

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= demount, pull apart, dismantle, disassemble [dis-assemble], take + Nombre + to pieces, take + Nombre + to bits, take + Nombre + apart, pull + Nombre + to bits, dismount, take down.

Ex. Other walls, where security and privacy are absolutely essential, are not structural and are designed to be easily demounted and erected elsewhere.

Ex. All these bits of raw material -- these 'chunks of reality' as McNair calls them -- are encapsulated in a carefully organized and well-rounded whole, which the reader must pull apart and put together again.

Ex. The reader has to reserve books on display and wait till the entire display is dismantled.

Ex. Documents can be easily built, extended, truncated, reordered, assembled and disassembled on a component basis, and the document components, can be reused.

Ex. Furniture from ships was sometimes built-in, sometimes capable of being taken to pieces easily, and sometimes it bore fittings allowing it to be secured to deck or bulkhead.

Ex. The bronze gearing was far too corroded to be taken to bits, cleaned up, and made to work.

Ex. The houses are built, then taken apart and trucked to where they are needed and then re-assembled.

Ex. Microscopists think very little about plucking an innocent and unsuspecting insect from the garden, killing it, and pulling it to bits for study under a microscope.

Ex. Dismounting a horse like a greenhorn can be embarrassing, and more important, dangerous.

Ex. State officials urge people to take down bird feeders after recent reports of sick and dead birds, according to a news release.

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* desmontar un mito = demystify + myth.

* desmontar y limpiar = strip and clean.

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1.

verbo transitivo

a) (desarmar) <mueble/mecanismo> to dismantle, take apart; <motor/rifle> to strip (down); <tienda de campaña> to take down

b) (separar) <forro/pieza> to detach, remove

2.

desmontar vi jinete to dismount

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= demount, pull apart, dismantle, disassemble [dis-assemble], take + Nombre + to pieces, take + Nombre + to bits, take + Nombre + apart, pull + Nombre + to bits, dismount, take down.

Ex: Other walls, where security and privacy are absolutely essential, are not structural and are designed to be easily demounted and erected elsewhere.

Ex: All these bits of raw material -- these 'chunks of reality' as McNair calls them -- are encapsulated in a carefully organized and well-rounded whole, which the reader must pull apart and put together again.

Ex: The reader has to reserve books on display and wait till the entire display is dismantled.

Ex: Documents can be easily built, extended, truncated, reordered, assembled and disassembled on a component basis, and the document components, can be reused.

Ex: Furniture from ships was sometimes built-in, sometimes capable of being taken to pieces easily, and sometimes it bore fittings allowing it to be secured to deck or bulkhead.

Ex: The bronze gearing was far too corroded to be taken to bits, cleaned up, and made to work.

Ex: The houses are built, then taken apart and trucked to where they are needed and then re-assembled.

Ex: Microscopists think very little about plucking an innocent and unsuspecting insect from the garden, killing it, and pulling it to bits for study under a microscope.

Ex: Dismounting a horse like a greenhorn can be embarrassing, and more important, dangerous.

Ex: State officials urge people to take down bird feeders after recent reports of sick and dead birds, according to a news release.

* desmontar un mito = demystify + myth.

* desmontar y limpiar = strip and clean.

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desmontar [A1 ]

vt

A

1 (desarmar) ‹mueble/estante› to dismantle, take apart; ‹motor› to strip

desmontamos la tienda de campaña we took down the tent

2 (separar) ‹forro/pieza› to detach, remove

B

1 (allanar) ‹terreno› to level

2 ‹zona/selva› to clear

C (Arm) to uncock

■ desmontar

vi

«jinete» to dismount

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desmontar (conjugate desmontar) verbo transitivo

a) (desarmar) ‹mueble/mecanismo› to dismantle, take apart;

‹tienda de campaña› to take down

b) (separar) ‹forro/pieza› to detach, remove

verbo intransitivo [jinete] to dismount
desmontar
I verbo transitivo
1 (un mueble, artefacto) to dismantle, take to pieces
2 (una excusa, argumento) to take to pieces
II vi (de un caballo, vehículo) to dismount [de, -], get off [de, -]
'desmontar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
deshacer
- tienda
English:
apart
- disassemble
- dismantle
- piece
- pull apart
- strip
- take apart
- take down
- clear
- detach
- dismount
- take
- throw
- unseat

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desmontar

♦ vt

1. [desarmar] [máquina, mecanismo] to take apart o to pieces, Espec to disassemble;

[mueble, librería, mesa] to dismantle, to take to pieces; [motor] to strip down; [piezas, partes] to remove, to detach; [rueda] to remove, to take off; [andamio, tablado, tienda de campaña] to take down

2. [teoría, argumentación] to demolish, to pull to pieces

3. [arma] to uncock

4. [persona] [de caballo, moto, bicicleta] to unseat;

el caballo desmontó al jinete the horse threw its rider;

desmontó al niño de la bicicleta he took the boy off the bicycle

5. Informát to unmount

6. [terreno] to level;

[área, bosque] to clear

♦ vi

desmontar de [caballo] to dismount from;

[moto, bicicleta] to get off; [coche] to get out of

♦ See also the pronominal verb desmontarse

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desmontar

I v/t

1 dismantle, take apart; tienda de campaña take down

2 terreno level

II v/i dismount

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desmontar vt

1) : to clear, to level off

2) desmantelar: to dismantle, to take apart

desmontar vi

: to dismount

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desmontar vb

1. (en general) to take apart [pt. took; pp. taken]

tendré que desmontar el reloj I'll have to take the watch apart

2. (tienda de campaña, estantería) to take down [pt. took; pp. taken]

desmontaron la tienda en un tiempo récord they took the tent down in record time