verb (used without object)
- to get off or alight from a horse, bicycle, etc.
verb (used with object)
- to bring or throw down, as from a horse; unhorse; throw: The horse twisted and bucked and finally dismounted its rider.
- to remove (a thing) from its mounting, support, setting, etc.: to dismount a picture.
- to take (a mechanism) to pieces.
noun
- an act or process of dismounting.
- Gymnastics. a move by which a gymnast gets off an apparatus or finishes a floor exercise, usually landing upright on the feet.
verb
- to get off a horse, bicycle, etc
- (tr) to disassemble or remove from a mounting
noun
- the act of dismounting
1540s, from dis- + mount (v.). Related: Dismounted; dismounting.