dismount

Plural: dismounts

Noun

• the act of dismounting (a horse or bike etc.)
• The act of stepping down from something being ridden, such as a skateboard.
• The part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus.

Verb

Verb Forms: dismounted, dismounting, dismounts

• To get off or down from something, typically a horse or bicycle.
• alight from (a horse)
• To (cause to) get off (something).
• To make (a mounted drive) unavailable for use.
• To come down; to descend.
• To throw (cannon) off their carriages.

Examples

• He had to dismount from his high horse after a humbling Scrabble defeat.
• It was a stylish routine, let down by a sloppy dismount.
• Nice dismount!
• She carefully dismounted from the horse.
• She carefully dismounted the horse.
• The VMS operator tried to dismount the Unix hard drive with the DISMOUNT DISK$NFSMOUNT command, instead of umount /mnt/nfshome.

Synonyms

get down, get off, light, unhorse, umount, unmount

Antonyms

get on, mount

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