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   dismount

   /dɪsˈmaʊnt/

   verb

   • 1. get off a horse, bicycle, or anything that one is riding: "he rode over and dismounted" Similar alightget offget downOpposite mount
   • ▪ cause to fall off a horse, bicycle, etc.: "his escort had dismounted a trooper" Similar unseatdislodgethrowspillupsetunhorse
   • 2. remove (something) from its support: "we have to dismount the pump"
   • ▪ make (a disk or disk drive) unavailable for use: "the device should now be dismounted and unloaded"

   noun

   • 1. a move in which a gymnast jumps off an apparatus or completes a floor exercise: "on the uneven bars the women go for ever more complex dismounts"

   Word Origin mid 16th century: from dis- + mount1, probably on the pattern of Old French desmonter, medieval Latin dismontare.

   Scrabble Points: 11

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