dismember
to deprive of limbs; divide limb from limb: The ogre dismembered his victims before he ate them.
to divide into parts; cut to pieces; mutilate.
to reduce, reorganize, or discontinue the services or parts of (a company, government agency, etc.): Our business was dismembered by the conglomerate that bought it.
Origin of dismember
1Other words from dismember
- dis·mem·ber·er, noun
- dis·mem·ber·ment, noun
- non·dis·mem·ber·ment, noun
Words that may be confused with dismember
- disembodied, disemboweled, dismembered
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How to use dismember in a sentence
If anything can remind us about the futility of war, it is those wrecked, dismembered bodies.
The diamonds feature people with wrapped faces and wrapped bodies while the clubs have amputated and dismembered bodies.
They held posters and signs of dismembered babies, they shouted at my mother telling her she was killing her grandchild.
In North Dakota, Women Who Had the Choice to Abort | Winston Ross | March 29, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWere they dispossessed, their ancient, pre-Islamic communities destroyed, their families dismembered—of their own free will?
The question remained: who killed and then dismembered the friendly retired Mexicana Airlines clerk?
Hollywood Hills Severed Head Case Looks at Victim’s Ex | Christine Pelisek | August 4, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
No mention was made of Austria, which the treaty of Presburg had sufficiently dismembered.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte | William Milligan SloaneWas the ancient monarchy really to be humiliated and remain permanently dismembered?
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte | William Milligan SloaneHe envisaged the possibility of a vanquished and dismembered France.
The Bronze Eagle | Emmuska Orczy, Baroness OrczyAnd on the instant rose that terrible distressing scream of acute agony—like that of a woman being dismembered.
The Man of the Forest | Zane GreyCoke objected to having the King's evidence dismembered, 'whereby it might lose much of its grace and vigour.'
Sir Walter Ralegh | William Stebbing
British Dictionary definitions for dismember
/ (dɪsˈmɛmbə) /
to remove the limbs or members of
to cut to pieces
to divide or partition (something, such as an empire)
Derived forms of dismember
- dismemberer, noun
- dismemberment, noun
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