dismember
verb (used with object)
to deprive of limbs; divide limb from limb.
had dismembered
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past perfectof dismember.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The authors were surprised by how precisely the whales had dismembered a kill they retrieved.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 4, 2011
The remains of the soldiers of Kosciusko sought a refuge in republican France, and served with distinction, in the armies of Napoleon, against the powers that had dismembered their country.
From A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord
Behind them, meantime, Jeanne lay at rest in innocent sleep, and Monsieur Rambaud, his whole attention engrossed, bent his grizzled head over the doll which he had dismembered.
From A Love Episode by Émile Zola
Rather than give up he would pass years here, till he had dismembered the whole ship and strewn every particle of her piecemeal over the bottom of the sea.
From Cord and Creese by James De Mille
Our saint was born in 468, about thirty years after the Barbarians had dismembered Africa from the Roman empire.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler
