dismount
/dɪsˈmaʊnt/ verb C1- To (cause to) get off (something). · She carefully dismounted from the horse.· She carefully dismounted the horse.
- 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.
- To come down; to descend.
- To throw (cannon) off their carriages.
He/she/it dismounts · Past dismounted · Past participle dismounted · -ing form dismounting
Verb forms
- Base form
- dismount
- He/she/it
- dismounts
- Past
- dismounted
- Past participle
- dismounted
- -ing form
- dismounting
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Upon this the old man made his son dismount, and got up himself.
However that might have been, the priest, dismounting, led his steed by the bridle in search of some place to which he could secure him.
At the foot of the hill the count dismounted and began to ascend by a little winding path, about eighteen inches wide; when he reached the summit he found himself stopped by a hedge, upon which green fruit had succeeded to red and white flowers.
“Only dismount; another will be immediately saddled.”
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