pull down or take to pieces
bring to an end (a system,arrangement,etc.), especially by gradual stages
"The building was levelled"
"strip a wall of its wallpaper"
Causing all the walls of it to be dismantelled, he razed the place quite to the ground.
出自: H. Cogan
Watching tents being put up and dismantled.
出自: A. Brookner
When Great Britain dismantled the British Empire it gave the land back to the original owners.
出自:Observer