dislimbv.
/dɪsˈlɪm/ transitive. To cut off the limbs of; to tear limb from limb; to dismember.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > maim or mutilate [verb (transitive)]
wemc900
slaya1000
alithOE
hamblea1050
belimbc1225
dismember1297
lamec1300
maimc1325
shearc1330
unablec1380
emblemishc1384
magglec1425
magc1450
demember1491
disablea1492
manglea1500
menyie?a1513
mayhem1533
mutilatec1570
martyr1592
stump1596
bemaim1605
cripplea1616
martyrize1615
deartuate1623
hamstring1641
becripple1660
limb1674
truncate1727
dislimb1855
1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Aeneid iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 386 His body..Could I not have dislimbed, and o'er the waves Have scattered it?
1860 G. J. Adler tr. C. C. Fauriel Hist. Provençal Poetry xii. 265 The shoulder of a calf..which he dislimbed with the most admirable dexterity.
Derivatives
dislimbed adj. /dɪsˈlɪmd/
/dɪsˈlɪmd/ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > [adjective]
maimed1340
remuled1481
mutilate1525
dismembered1552
trunked1552
martyred1567
bodiless1587
limbless1594
mutilated1598
memberless1611
maim1653
concised1660
dislimbed1662
truncated1731
obtruncate1805
lop-limbed1809
decurtate1859
1662 H. More Coll. Several Philos. Writings (ed. 2) Gen. Pref. 19 Not..unlike the raising from the dead the dislimb'd Hippolytus.
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