DISMANTLEMENT Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

dismantlement

noun

Definition of dismantlement

as in eradication

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Recent Examples of dismantlement The facility is in the midst of an eight-year dismantlement project. — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026 Under such an approach, negotiations would focus first on halting the production and advancement of nuclear weapons, rather than demanding the dismantlement of North Korea's existing arsenal at the outset. — Se Eun Gong, NPR, 3 Aug. 2026 According to the company, more than half of the nuclear plant’s dismantlement has already been completed. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 3 Aug. 2026 The framework — contra the MOU — requires the dismantlement of Hezbollah’s military infrastructure. — Ron Kampeas, The Washington Examiner, 25 July 2026 Its dismantlement, Drazin believed, would allow Monmouth to offer a Vegas-like experience in New Jersey. — Rebecca Egan McCarthy, New Yorker, 21 July 2026 The move marked the beginning of the dismantlement of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), cutting vital health and humanitarian funding worldwide — including in Africa, one of the largest recipients of US assistance. — Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 8 June 2026 Ruthless business practices in its early days made Standard Oil the target of a famous antitrust campaign that would eventually lead to its dismantlement. — Alex Kuffner, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026 Continue reading … POLITICS ATOMIC STANDOFF — Iran signals nuclear progress in Geneva as Trump calls for full dismantlement. — FOXNews.com, 18 Feb. 2026

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Noun

Asked why Project Survival’s Cat Haven doesn’t simply exterminate local rattlesnakes, Anderson explained that eradication is neither practical nor consistent with the sanctuary’s mission.

— Gagandeep Singh, Sacbee.com, 26 Aug. 2026
That’s why, to Hamid Jafari, director of polio eradication for the WHO and a former director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Center for Global Health, infrastructure isn’t an abstract buzzword.

— Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of eradication

Noun

There are times in The Years when the betrayal and effacement of May compels Ernaux to say something similar.

— Tobi Haslett, Harper's Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
Only in retrospect does the insincere self-effacement by some of the most powerful men of their era take on the infantile quality of potty humor.

— Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023

Definition of effacement

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They would be housed in a large, rectangular, concrete-block building that had originally been a holding pen and slaughter area for livestock.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 31 Aug. 2026
Many leaders of the slaughter were tried and convicted by a United Nations war crimes tribunal that has now closed down.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of slaughter

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Son of a partisan fighter The son of a World War Two partisan fighter killed in 1945, Mladic was an officer in the old communist Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) when Yugoslavia's disintegration began in 1991.

— Ivana Sekularac, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
Slow disintegration also appears in a triptych of videos by Ismail Ghanbari (facilitated by Tala Madani but not credited as a collaboration).

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of disintegration

Noun

Poho said the case was about more than compensation, explaining that the effects of the massacre had been felt across the wider Sharpeville community.

— Michelle Gumede, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Just last month, two key organizers behind what used to be the only large-scale public commemoration of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre on Chinese soil were found guilty of inciting subversion.

— Chris Lau, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of massacre

Noun

On September 6, 1901, a setting intended to showcase the thrill of a new century instead became the scene of a presidential assassination.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026
The Islamic Republic survived the assassination of its top leaders and weeks of heavy bombing, and found a potent form of leverage in the Strait of Hormuz.

— Mark Osborne, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of assassination

Noun

Escaping an energy collapse Things didn’t collapse as analysts feared at the beginning of the conflict.

— Katie Silver, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026
The letter provides the most complete window into Kapoor’s thinking since the collapse of his company, Location Ventures, three years ago.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2026

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