单词	dismemberment
释义	dismemberment /dɪsˈmɛmbəm(ə)nt / noun [mass noun] 1The action of cutting off a person’s or animal’s limbs: graphic pictures of torture and dismemberment... Nevertheless, Treadwell was aware, at least on an intellectual level, that he courted dismemberment or death. Berlin learns of an old case involving the serial murder and pathological dismemberment of certain body parts of the victims. Naturally things start slow (the first death comes quick and with little gore) and by the end we get chainsaw dismemberments. 2The action of partitioning or dividing up a territory or organization: the dissolution and dismemberment of the British empire... Alexander felt that the dismemberment of Poland, over which his grandmother Catherine had presided, had been a shameful act. Regional elections in the early 1990s shifted the reform agenda from liberalization to subnational independence and central state dismemberment. Nothing would have led more swiftly to the country's dismemberment than a policy of discrimination in the granting of privileges between one power and another.
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