Also means
to phase out
Usage Note
Dismettere (conjugated like mettere, irregular) means to stop using or decommission something, especially industrial plants, equipment, or practices. Dismettere una fabbrica means to shut down a factory permanently. The past participle is dismesso; un edificio dismesso is an abandoned building — a common collocation in Italian urban-renewal discourse.
Examples
"Hanno deciso di dismettere l'impianto."
Natural Translation
They decided to decommission the plant.
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