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English

Pronunciation


Verb

  1. To remove the limbs of.
  2. :Death by drawing and quartering usually dismembered the condemned person.
  3. To cut or otherwise divide something into pieces.
  4. :The killer methodically dismembered the bodies of his victims.
  5. :The American Civil War nearly dismembered the Union.


Derived terms


Translations

fr:dismember io:dismember it:dismember te:dismember vi:dismember zh:dismember

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Dismember \Dis*mem"ber\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dismembered; p.
pr. & vb. n. Dismembering.] [OF. desmembrer, F.
d['e]membrer; pref. des- (L. dis) + OF. & F. membre limb. See
Member.]
1. To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member
from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up.
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Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. --Pope.
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A society lacerated and dismembered. --Gladstone.
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By whose hands the blow should be struck which would
dismember that once mighty empire. --Buckle.
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2. To deprive of membership. [Obs.]
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They were dismembered by vote of the house. --R.
North.

Syn: To disjoint; dislocate; dilacerate; mutilate; divide;
sever.
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WordNet dismember
v 1: separate the limbs from the body; "the tiger dismembered the
tourist"
2: divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our
funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the
war" [syn: take apart, discerp]
Moby Dictionary
cripple , defoliate , denude , disassemble , dismantle ,
draw and quarter , flay , grill , impale , keelhaul , lacerate , maim ,
mangle , mayhem , mutilate , part , peel , pick to pieces , picket ,
pull apart , rack , separate , sever , shred , skin , strip , sunder ,
take apart , take down , tar and feather , tear apart , tear to pieces ,
tear to tatters , torture


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