to dismember
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- verb
- /dɪsˈmɛmbər/
- Offensive
:
desmembrar
- The historical account details how the empire was dismembered by external forces after the war.
- dismember the body
- dismember the country
- dismembered the empire
He seems to want to disrupt and dismember and destroy NATO, because this certainly makes NATO look like nothing.
- He seems to want to disrupt and dismember and destroy NATO, because this certainly makes NATO look like nothing.
Examples
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Regionally, New Delhi dismembered its archenemy Pakistan in the 1971 war and consolidated its hegemonic position in the South Asian subcontinent.
Academic text (2000) -
Drastic action was justified on the grounds that the PKK and the Islamist party were both determined to destroy Kemalist Turkey, the first by dismembering it, the second by infecting it with the virus of fundamentalism.
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Did not the ladies in that video systematically dismember this member of Congress?
Blog text (5) -
Think only of the recent experiences of the Russian Empire and its dismembered parts and of Latin American countries.
Academic text (1997) -
Indeed, the Western powers dismembered Yugoslavia through a new method of aggression: diplomatic recognition.
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Informal settlements such as Mashinini and parts of Disteneng have been dismembered and their former inhabitants relocated.
Academic text (2018) -
The detective found evidence suggesting someone had tried to dismember the victim's body.
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In the meeting, they discussed plans to dismember the organization into smaller units for better management.
Synonyms
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1.0
To pull something so it breaks into pieces
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1.3
To break something into two or more parts
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2.8
To separate something into smaller parts to explain or study it
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2.6
To tear something into small thin pieces
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2.7
Separate something into smaller pieces
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4.2
Take something apart into separate pieces
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1.9
To cut something into smaller pieces by sharp blows again and again with a knife or axe
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3.0
To separate something into parts so it can be moved or fixed
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2.6
To divide something into smaller parts
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2.7
To rip something into small pieces
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1.1
Make something into smaller pieces using scissors or a knife
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6.2
To cut open a dead animal or plant to study its inside parts
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3.0
To separate into pieces, for example a machine or a group
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3.2
To break something into pieces by hand
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3.9
To break into many small, sharp pieces like wood or glass
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3.8
To take something apart into separate pieces
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5.8
To divide something into parts to share between people
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6.7
To tear something into pieces or throw it away and start again
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8.0
To cut something in two using a sharp tool like an axe
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2.8
To tear something into small pieces
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5.4
Break something into many small parts or hurt someone very badly
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9.5
To remove the inside parts of a body, often in animals or surgery
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4.7
To damage something very badly so it breaks into pieces
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9.8
Take bones or meat apart at the joints
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9.9
To cut or separate something into parts, often by breaking it
To tear something into separate parts, usually by force
To divide something into parts, for example by cutting it or by sharing it among people
To break something into many small pieces
Antonyms
How Violent
- Formal
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- NSFW
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7.4
- Offensive
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6.2
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1.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dismember comes from two parts: dis- meaning 'apart' and membrum meaning 'limb' or 'part', the same root as the English word member. So to dismember something is to pull or break it 'apart' into pieces, which fits both cutting up a body and breaking an organization into separate parts.