Definitions for dismount

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dismount dis·mount

Spelling: [verb dis-mount; noun dis-mount, Dismount is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 327 anagrams from letters in dismount (dimnostu).

Definitions for dismount

noun

1. an act or process of dismounting.
2. Gymnastics. a move by which a gymnast gets off an apparatus or finishes a floor exercise, usually landing upright on the feet.

verb (used with object)

1. to bring or throw down, as from a horse; unhorse; throw:
2. to remove (a thing) from its mounting, support, setting, etc.:
3. to take (a mechanism) to pieces.

verb (used without object)

1. to get off or alight from a horse, bicycle, etc.

Origin of dismount

1525-35; probably modeled on Medieval Latin dismontāre or Middle French desmonter. See dis-¹, mount¹

Examples for dismount

It was the work of a few minutes to dismount the two Brownings from the plane.

A mile further it was necessary to dismount and proceed on foot.

On entering the town, I was obliged to dismount and proceed on foot.

Then Mr. Brown helped her to dismount, and still no Julie was to be seen.

Occasionally the paths were so rocky that we had to dismount and lead the horses.

dismount and walk past any horse that becomes frightened at your bicycle.

When you are free of your cloak, Tony Cross, dismount and let us embrace.

Before I could dismount, she had slipped off, and begun gathering up her skirt.

It was easy work to dismount and crawl to the edge of the creek.

I was off and by her side in a moment, helping her to dismount.