dismember
verb (used with object)
to deprive of limbs; divide limb from limb.
dismembered
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past participleof dismember.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof dismember.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
dismemberverb (used with object)to deprive of limbs; divide limb from limb.
Example Sentences
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“There he tinkered with dismembered clocks and toasters, and the pathos of dismantled gears, springs and wires infected him with a tenderness for mechanisms that spill their guts for all the world to see.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
Only, sometimes, these cadavers are not truly donated — and the dead person never consented to have their body dismembered.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2024
It was Coyolxauhqui, carefully portrayed in stone as the dismembered lunar goddess who lost a battle against her brother, the Sun.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
In Turkey, Kemal Ataturk had built a modern European secular republic - a Turkish nation-state - after the multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire had been defeated and dismembered in 1918.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2022
Was it not the invincible force of that powerful arm of yours that has scattered and dismembered them so?
From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
