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"
   - take apart, discerp

Derived forms: dismembered, dismembering, dismembers

See also: dismemberment

Type of: divide, kill, part, separate

Encyclopedia: Dismember

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