dismemberment
14
8.7
- noun
- /dɪsˈmɛmbərmənt/
- Offensive
:
desmembramiento
- But the 1948 war did not spare any Palestinian the agony of dispossession, exile, and family dismemberment.
- dismemberment and mutilation
- dismemberment of the body
- ritual dismemberment
I've seen a bunch of dismemberments, you know, they take a guy's hand off.
- I've seen a bunch of dismemberments, you know, they take a guy's hand off.
- There's some death, there's some dismemberment, but she punishes you.
- Well, that's a disowned part, and that's a deflected part and a dismemberment, as some have said.
Examples
-
Why else would the album's "love songs" include multiple images of dismemberment?
Academic text (2013) -
"Triple murder, including body dismemberment."
-
by dismemberment in the news tonight, this brings the total up to 5 over the last 2 weeks
-
"In case of death or dismemberment"?
-
Unfortunately Jack Holt's policy covered him only in the event of accidental death or dismemberment.
-
Most importantly, partition created a precedent for dismemberment along religious lines.
Academic text (2002) -
The modern history of China is a record of subjection to aggression, dismemberment, and humiliation by foreign powers.
Academic text (1999) -
Accidental death and dismemberment, paying up to $500,000 for a member or spouse;
Academic text (2001) -
The 1971 War erupted on 3 December and culminated in the Indian dismemberment of Pakistan in order to form Bangladesh.
Academic text (2000) -
The detective found evidence of dismemberment at the crime scene, raising questions about the nature of the investigation.
Synonyms
34
6.5
The removal of a limb by surgery and the state of having lost one
19
8.4
Severe injury that removes a body part or badly changes how someone looks
17
6.3
Cutting an animal or plant open to study its inside parts
14
4.4
The act of taking a machine or system apart
6
6.2
Something breaks into smaller pieces and falls apart
3
5.9
The act of taking a machine or building apart into separate parts
2
5.2
To take something apart, often a machine, so you can fix or check it
2
5.8
Cutting something so it becomes separate
1
8.7
To cut something, often a body, into separate pieces
1
9.9
A body part suddenly separated from where it is attached, often by injury or surgery
1
9.5
Separation of bones at a joint, often after injury or surgery
1
9.8
The cutting or splitting of something into parts
Antonyms
How Severe
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dismemberment comes from dis- meaning 'apart' and member meaning 'a limb or part', the same idea as the everyday word member for someone in a group. So, to dismember is to take limbs or parts away, which is why dismemberment means being cut into pieces or having limbs removed.