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dismember
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As a verb, dismember means remove the limbs of.
Meanings of dismember
3 meaningsverb
To remove the limbs of.
“Death by drawing and quartering usually dismembered the condemned person.”
To cut or otherwise divide something into pieces.
“The killer methodically dismembered the bodies of his victims.”
“The American Civil War nearly dismembered the Union.”
Separate the limbs from the body
“the tiger dismembered the tourist”
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).
Synonyms by meaning
verb: divide into pieces
take apartdiscerp
Words that rhyme with dismember
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