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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“If the President’s House is left dismembered throughout this dispute, so too is the history it recounts, and the City’s relationship to that history,” Rufe wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026
Now the dismembered statue has become a symbol of a city - and a nation - struggling to reckon with its darkest chapters.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2024
“It started very early,” he said, producing as evidence a faded, dismembered copy of the U.N.’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights that he received as a teenager in school and still carries in his wallet.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2022
Ghafoor’s connection to Khashoggi, the Saudi dissident and Washington Post columnist who was killed and dismembered by Saudi agents in Turkey in 2018, has raised the profile of the case.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2022
The fowl is dismembered with a jack-knife in a twinkling, and shared.
From Sea and Sardinia by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
