disassemble
verb
dis·as·sem·ble
ˌdis-ə-ˈsem-bəl 
disassembled; disassembling; disassembles
: to take apart
disassemble a watch
1
: to come apart
the frame disassembles into sections
Examples of disassemble in a Sentence
The bookshelf disassembles for easy storage.
they had to disassemble the television set in order to replace the wiring
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Over nine months, the chapel's 30 tons of stone and 18,000 French terra-cotta roof tiles were carefully disassembled, labeled and shipped to Milwaukee.
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Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 29 Oct. 2025
When the Exposition closed that November, however, it was unceremoniously disassembled, never to be seen again.
—Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
Its modular build lets users quickly disassemble and customize it for different experiments.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2025
Each of its thousands of parts are disassembled, cleaned, inspected, and then repaired or replaced as needed.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2025
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Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 29 Oct. 2025
When the Exposition closed that November, however, it was unceremoniously disassembled, never to be seen again.
—Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
Its modular build lets users quickly disassemble and customize it for different experiments.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2025
Each of its thousands of parts are disassembled, cleaned, inspected, and then repaired or replaced as needed.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for disassemble
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“Disassemble.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disassemble. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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