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dismount verb [ dɪsˈmaʊnt ]

• get off a horse, bicycle, or anything that one is riding.
• "he rode over and dismounted"
Similar: alight, get off, get down,
Opposite: mount,
• remove (something) from its support.
• "we have to dismount the pump"

dismount noun

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


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