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  • verb present participle of disassemble

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Examples

  • Remove the exhaust system, silencers first, followed by the expansion chambers (a good idea when disassembling is to bag and label all the hardware to help when reassembling everything).

    Workshop: Top-End Check Up 2007

  • A major surgery that would entail disassembling the entire area and dissecting my pancreas was needed.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Devotional Stories for Women Susan M. Heim 2009

  • A major surgery that would entail disassembling the entire area and dissecting my pancreas was needed.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Devotional Stories for Women Susan M. Heim 2009

  • Recently my bb 8900 javelin has the sticky unscrollable problem and I dont like the idea of disassembling my bb to replace the trackball, quite risky and void the warranty.

    Boy Genius Report Lilian Hiu 2010

  • If a citizen believes that Bush is misleading the nation (or "disassembling") on the war, how can it not be that citizen's duty to point this out and agitate accordingly?

    David Corn: A Birthday Card for America 2008

  • In his series, Mossberg taught some of the tricks and techniques of assembly language by taking parts of DOS 3.3, and later BASIC. SYSTEM and PRODOS, and "disassembling" them into readable assembly source code.

    The Apple II History, by Steven Weyhrich : Magazines 1992

  • The following sections provide a simple example of the "disassembling" power of Reflector, followed by a brief tour of some of the useful features that are enabled once you register the tool with the operating system.

    Simple Talk rss feed Andrew Clarke 2010

  • "disassembling" myself, usually dumping keys, watch, change, cell phone, etc, in a pocket of my briefcase, or maybe the bag with my lunch goodies.

    DownWithTyranny! 2009

  • Such disassembling is one layer of protection against potential theft by jihadists.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • Yury Luzhkov, later mayor of Moscow, recalls disassembling artillery shells and rigging them to explode Luzhkov, My deti tvoi, 129–30.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

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