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Definition of dismember in English: dismemberverb dɪsˈmɛmbədɪsˈmɛmbər [with object]1Cut off the limbs of (a person or animal) he watched a doctor dismember the body Example sentencesExamples - He was not there when the child was born, he was not there when the child died and he was not there when the child was dismembered and buried?
- Horses are dismembered, arrows slice through necks, and swift blades render unexpected carnage.
- The decision to dismember the body and deposit the parts in Galveston Bay, is highly incriminating.
- Thompson, who denies murder, then allegedly dismembered the body before burying the remains in the Lake District.
- A Yorkshireman suspected of dismembering a man then fleeing to the United States was waiting to return to the UK last night after officially waiving his right to fight extradition.
- I am astonished to see it's the partly buried, dismembered body of a woman.
- Take a pile of mystery keys, dismembered action figures, dead flashlights, assorted calculators and undeveloped rolls of film.
- Prosecutors said he strangled him and later dismembered his girlfriend in Greece in 1997.
- He also admitted to dismembering a six-year-old child.
- I carried on with the body much like before, disemboweling and dismembering the boy.
- They also raise extraordinary philosophical issues; like whether extracting them from a test-tube embryo is tantamount to dismembering a baby.
- In the old vegetation myths the god is dismembered, dies, and is buried as a sacrifice that generates new life, freeing the waters and restoring life to the Waste Land.
- In hospitals, doctors dismember their patients.
- A TEN-year-old schoolgirl yesterday told a hushed court how she had seen the man accused of murdering and dismembering another man beat her mother.
- It's one thing to watch people being dismembered on screen.
- The official said the suspects had admitted to making an appointment to meet the car dealer and then shooting him, dismembering him and scattering the body parts around eastern Moscow.
- A very straightforward narrative told with understated cinematic technique, this is not an excuse to show off how cool it can be to dismember a character using computer graphics.
- The man accused of murdering and dismembering another man after stabbing him through the heart may have had some knowledge of butchery, a court heard.
- He also dismembers victims and attaches their limbs to car batteries to make them twitch.
- In the past, the gang has threatened to kidnap and dismember the boy.
Synonyms disjoint, joint, cut off the limbs of pull apart, cut up, chop up, break up, dissect, divide, segment mutilate, hack up, butcher, tear limb from limb rare limb 2Partition or divide up (a territory or organization) the winning powers of World War I set out to dismember the Ottoman Empire Example sentencesExamples - The kingdom of the Greeks is now dismembered by them, and deprived of territory so vast in extent that it can not be traversed in a march of two months.
- So the lands of the dismembered Yugoslav state became not only the scene of Europe's greatest resistance struggle, but also one of its bloodiest civil wars.
- It was a particular grief for him to see the army to which he had devoted his life dismembered by partition in 1947.
- Austria-Hungary lost 1.3 million military lives and the victorious western Allies dismembered its empire.
- When in 1903 Leo XIII died and the Patriarch of Venice ascended to St Peter's throne as Pius X, the Vatican dismembered the political arm of the organization for good.
- Germany, too, was dismembered, divided, stripped of colonies, bankrupted by war reparations, forced to confess full moral guilt for the war.
- Most German commentators now regard the dismembering of the Kirch empire as a foregone conclusion, leaving other sports and TV companies across Europe facing an uncertain future.
- After World War I, England and France dismembered the Ottoman Empire and carved out Iraq and other states as pawns of European colonial interests.
- The European empires were dismembered by nationalist movements, with support from lawyers, journalists, unions, and the churches.
- We were the ones that brought the country to its independence in 1923, by a treaty for dismembering the old Ottoman Empire.
- This problem is of principal importance to Russia as long as there are forces that intend to resort to a strategy of dismembering this country to prevent it from emerging as a strong competitor, especially a superpower.
- Currency stabilization was a top economic priority after World War l in the dismembered Austro-Hungarian Empire.
- In 1102 Henry I broke the sons of Roger of Montgomery, earl of Shrewsbury, and dismembered their father's marcher ‘empire’.
Origin Middle English: from Old French desmembrer, based on Latin dis- 'apart' + membrum 'limb'. Definition of dismember in US English: dismemberverbdɪsˈmɛmbərdisˈmembər [with object]1Cut off the limbs of (a person or animal) I can picture you in a white jacket dismembering rats Example sentencesExamples - He also dismembers victims and attaches their limbs to car batteries to make them twitch.
- Horses are dismembered, arrows slice through necks, and swift blades render unexpected carnage.
- I am astonished to see it's the partly buried, dismembered body of a woman.
- Prosecutors said he strangled him and later dismembered his girlfriend in Greece in 1997.
- He also admitted to dismembering a six-year-old child.
- He was not there when the child was born, he was not there when the child died and he was not there when the child was dismembered and buried?
- The official said the suspects had admitted to making an appointment to meet the car dealer and then shooting him, dismembering him and scattering the body parts around eastern Moscow.
- It's one thing to watch people being dismembered on screen.
- In hospitals, doctors dismember their patients.
- In the past, the gang has threatened to kidnap and dismember the boy.
- They also raise extraordinary philosophical issues; like whether extracting them from a test-tube embryo is tantamount to dismembering a baby.
- A TEN-year-old schoolgirl yesterday told a hushed court how she had seen the man accused of murdering and dismembering another man beat her mother.
- A Yorkshireman suspected of dismembering a man then fleeing to the United States was waiting to return to the UK last night after officially waiving his right to fight extradition.
- Take a pile of mystery keys, dismembered action figures, dead flashlights, assorted calculators and undeveloped rolls of film.
- Thompson, who denies murder, then allegedly dismembered the body before burying the remains in the Lake District.
- A very straightforward narrative told with understated cinematic technique, this is not an excuse to show off how cool it can be to dismember a character using computer graphics.
- The man accused of murdering and dismembering another man after stabbing him through the heart may have had some knowledge of butchery, a court heard.
- The decision to dismember the body and deposit the parts in Galveston Bay, is highly incriminating.
- In the old vegetation myths the god is dismembered, dies, and is buried as a sacrifice that generates new life, freeing the waters and restoring life to the Waste Land.
- I carried on with the body much like before, disemboweling and dismembering the boy.
Synonyms disjoint, joint, cut off the limbs of - 1.1 Partition or divide up (a territory or organization)
Russia intended to dismember the Ottoman Empire Example sentencesExamples - This problem is of principal importance to Russia as long as there are forces that intend to resort to a strategy of dismembering this country to prevent it from emerging as a strong competitor, especially a superpower.
- We were the ones that brought the country to its independence in 1923, by a treaty for dismembering the old Ottoman Empire.
- Currency stabilization was a top economic priority after World War l in the dismembered Austro-Hungarian Empire.
- Germany, too, was dismembered, divided, stripped of colonies, bankrupted by war reparations, forced to confess full moral guilt for the war.
- When in 1903 Leo XIII died and the Patriarch of Venice ascended to St Peter's throne as Pius X, the Vatican dismembered the political arm of the organization for good.
- So the lands of the dismembered Yugoslav state became not only the scene of Europe's greatest resistance struggle, but also one of its bloodiest civil wars.
- The kingdom of the Greeks is now dismembered by them, and deprived of territory so vast in extent that it can not be traversed in a march of two months.
- Austria-Hungary lost 1.3 million military lives and the victorious western Allies dismembered its empire.
- The European empires were dismembered by nationalist movements, with support from lawyers, journalists, unions, and the churches.
- It was a particular grief for him to see the army to which he had devoted his life dismembered by partition in 1947.
- In 1102 Henry I broke the sons of Roger of Montgomery, earl of Shrewsbury, and dismembered their father's marcher ‘empire’.
- Most German commentators now regard the dismembering of the Kirch empire as a foregone conclusion, leaving other sports and TV companies across Europe facing an uncertain future.
- After World War I, England and France dismembered the Ottoman Empire and carved out Iraq and other states as pawns of European colonial interests.
Origin Middle English: from Old French desmembrer, based on Latin dis- ‘apart’ + membrum ‘limb’. |