Read the following passage from the article, "Wonderful Things" from the October 2013 issue of Calliope magazine.
Three days later, they found 16 stone steps leading down to a blocked and sealed doorway Carter dismantled the
doorway, and emptied the corridor behind it.
Based on the context of the passage, what does the word dismantled most likely mean?
• took apart
destroyed
remade
blew up