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Mantel vs Dismantle - What's the difference?

mantel | dismantle |

As a noun mantel

is coat.

As a verb dismantle is

(originally) to divest, strip of dress or covering.

mantel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • the shelf above a fireplace which may be also a structural support for the masonry of the chimney
  • A maneuver to surmount a ledge, involving pushing down on the ledge to bring up the body. Also called mantelshelf

    • Related terms

    * mantelpiece

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To surmount a ledge by pushing down on the ledge to bring up the body.

    • Synonyms

    * mantelshelf

    Anagrams

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    dismantle

    English

    Verb

    (dismantl)
  • (originally) To divest, strip of dress or covering.
  • To remove fittings or furnishings from.
  • To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17
    • , author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot , title=Money just makes the rich suffer , volume=188, issue=23, page=19 , magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) citation , passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled . Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. […]}}

    Derived terms

    * dismantlement

    References

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