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dismount

/dɪsˈmaʊnt/

dismount verb: to (cause to) get off (something).

Verb

dismount (third-person singular simple present dismounts, present participle dismounting, simple past and past participle dismounted)

  1. (ambitransitive) To (cause to) get off (something).
    • She carefully dismounted from the horse.
    • She carefully dismounted the horse.
  2. (ambitransitive) To make (a mounted drive) unavailable for use.
    • The VMS operator tried to dismount the Unix hard drive with the DISMOUNT DISK$NFSMOUNT command, instead of umount /mnt/nfshome.
    • PROBLEM: A volume periodically dismounts. There are two drives with one volume on each. From time to time, the second volume dismounts and the drive shuts down.1995, Rick Sant'Angelo, NetWare unleashed, page 1130
  3. (intransitive) To come down; to descend.
    • But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount.1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “May. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC
  4. (transitive) To throw (cannon) off their carriages.

Noun

dismount (plural dismounts)

  1. The act of stepping down from something being ridden, such as a skateboard.
    • Nice dismount!
  2. The part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus.
    • It was a stylish routine, let down by a sloppy dismount.

dismount meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Arabic

dismount in Tamil

இறங்கு, இழி, இறக்கு, கழற்று

dismount in Malayalam

alight, get off, get down
താഴെ ഇറങ്ങുക, ഇറങ്ങുക, എറങ്ങുക, നിലത്തിറങ്ങുക, കുതിരപ്പുറത്തു നിന്നിറങ്ങുക, വാഹനത്തിൽപിന്നിറങ്ങുക
unseat, dislodge, throw
താഴെ ഇറക്കുക, നിഷ്കാസനം ചെയ്യുക, ഇറക്കുക, ഇറക്കിവിടുക, മറിച്ചിടുക, ഇരിപ്പിടത്തിൽ നിന്നു വീഴ്ത്തുക

dismount in Kannada

ಬೇರ್ಪಡಿಸು, ಕೆಳಗಿಳಿ, ಕೆಳಗಿಳಿಸು

dismount in Arabic

to get off
تَرَجَّل tarajjal

Examples of dismount in a sentence

  • Unplugging a flash drive without dismounting it first can corrupt the data stored on the drive.
  • The cavalry messenger dismounted after his moon blindness made it unsafe to ride on through the wilderness.
  • Once again, the world champion sticks the dismount.

All 28 example sentences with dismount

Synonyms of dismount

Antonyms

Forms of dismount

Verb
third-person singular presentdismounts
present participledismounting
past participledismounted
pastdismounted
Noun
pluraldismounts

Past tense of dismount: dismounted

Origin of dismount

From dis- + mount, probably a calque of Old French desmonter.

Words formed from dismount

Words that rhyme with dismount

Questions about dismount

What does dismount mean?
Dismount means to (cause to) get off (something).
What is dismount in Tamil?
Dismount in Tamil is இறங்கு, இழி, இறக்கு. See Dismount meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dismount?
Dismount can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce dismount?
Dismount is pronounced /dɪsˈmaʊnt/.
What is the past tense of dismount?
The past tense of dismount is dismounted.

Words near dismount in the dictionary

  1. dismortgage
  2. dismortgaged
  3. dismortgages
  4. dismortgaging
  5. dismotility
  6. dismount
  7. dismountable
  8. dismounted
  9. dismounter
  10. dismounters
  11. dismounteth

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dismount (page history and authors); dismount (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dismount (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); dismount (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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