1
as in descended
to come down from something (as a vehicle)
the coachman dismounted from his seat in order to assist the weary travelers
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2
as in dismantled
to take apart
dismount a revolver for cleaning
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Recent Examples of dismounted
Stopping, the man dismounted and shot that big bear square in the chest.
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Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
This enables wide distribution across the front lines, especially in areas where soldiers are primarily dismounted.
—Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
This enables wide distribution across the front lines, especially in areas where soldiers are primarily dismounted.
—Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dismounted
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The biggest names in tech descended on San Francisco last week for Morgan Stanley’s annual TMT Conference, armed with record earnings, soaring stock prices, and an AI arms race minting new fortunes at historic speed.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
12 Mar. 2026
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Last December, a large coterie of Silicon Valley billionaires descended upon Miami to attend Art Basel, the ritzy, contemporary art fair that marks the end of the moneyed set’s yearly social calendar.—
Stacy Perman,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2026
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Milan built a permanent Olympic Village that will become student housing, while Cortina relied on temporary accommodations that will be dismantled after the Games.—
Robert Carroll,
New York Daily News,
15 Mar. 2026
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Makeshift trenches with food supplies and utensils belonging to the miners were also dismantled, with clothing items left behind after the miners fled the site in Randfontein, about 25 miles west of Johannesburg.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Mar. 2026
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Victor Rillet, a 21-year-old Frenchman, disembarked the steamship Washington in New York in October 1864, carrying the kind of optimism that fuels both great innovation and spectacular disappointment.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Feb. 2026
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That was where miners disembarked for the northern mines in the Sierra Nevada mountains.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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Forty-one minutes later, her pacemaker application disconnected from her phone, marking the precise moment an 84-year-old woman who could not walk 50 yards without help was ripped from her bed.—
Neal K. Shah,
Boston Herald,
17 Mar. 2026
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Year after year, the Taiwanese public is becoming increasingly disconnected from their original Republic of China mentality.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Mar. 2026
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Drowsy honeymooners; now and again a group of Tahitian wildlife experts, alighted on the atoll to examine a particularly impressive giant clam.—
Antonia Quirke,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Jan. 2026
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The Super Beetle, called the 1301, alighted in 1971 with a 60 hp, 1,585 cc engine.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
12 Sep. 2025
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The editorial board has offered tone-deaf takes on the Iran war detached from its grotesque, senseless reality.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Mar. 2026
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Comfortable without being detached.—
Sponsored Content,
Denver Post,
6 Mar. 2026
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Two tiny humanoid robots that can play soccer stand in a glass case, one blinking and gesturing at visitors and the other partially disassembled to reveal the engineering inside.—
Miriam Fauzia,
Dallas Morning News,
5 Mar. 2026
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Notably, the facility is modular and expandable, allowing it to be disassembled and reassembled on location as productions require.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
25 Feb. 2026
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The most serious mid-air collision involving the plane happened in 1966, when a B-52 bomber carrying nuclear bombs struck a tanker near Palomares, Spain.—
Kim Tong-Hyung,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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Beyond the visuals, Tan’s actual caption struck a reflective tone that stood out from the usual social media fare.—
Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Mar. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Dismounted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dismounted. Accessed 17 Mar. 2026.
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