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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Only, sometimes, these cadavers are not truly donated — and the dead person never consented to have their body dismembered.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2024
If the lease was found to be consistent with the intent of Congress, “the entire West LA campus could be dismembered by private entities that provide marginal benefits to veterans,” he wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2023
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
The fowl is dismembered with a jack-knife in a twinkling, and shared.
From Sea and Sardinia by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
