dismembering
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Definitions
verb
- To remove the limbs of.“Death by drawing and quartering usually dismembered the condemned person.”
- To cut or otherwise divide something into pieces.“The American Civil War nearly dismembered the Union.”
noun
- The act or process whereby something is dismembered.
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take apartdismantlingdisarticulationdismantlementdisassemblydissectiondissectingdisseverationdisembodimentfragmentationdisseverancedissemblingdeconstructionsubdissectiondisembowelmentsevering