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- dismembre (obsolete)
From Middle English, from Old French desmembrer, from des- (“de-”) + membre (“limb”) + -er (“verbal suffix”).
dismember (third-person singular simple present dismembers, present participle dismembering, simple past and past participle dismembered)
- (transitive) To remove the limbs of.
Death by drawing and quartering usually dismembered the condemned person.
- (transitive) To cut or otherwise divide something into pieces.
The killer methodically dismembered the bodies of his victims.
The American Civil War nearly dismembered the Union.
remove limbs
- Arabic: بَتَرَ (ar) (batara), فَكَّكَ (fakkaka)
- Chinese:
- Finnish: teilata
- French: démembrer (fr), dépecer (fr)
- Galician: desmembrar (gl)
- German: zergliedern (de)
- Greek: διαμελίζω (el) (diamelízo)
- Ancient Greek: διαμελίζω (diamelízō)
- Ido: deskorpizar (io)
- Japanese: 切り放す (ja) (きりはなす, kirihanasu)
- Korean: 육시하다 (yuksihada)
- Macedonian: обесчленува (obesčlenuva)
- Polish: rozczłonkowywać (pl) impf, rozczłonkować (pl) pf
- Portuguese: desmembrar (pt)
- Russian: расчленя́ть (ru) impf (rasčlenjátʹ), расчлени́ть (ru) pf (rasčlenítʹ), четвертова́ть (ru) impf or pf (četvertovátʹ)
- Swedish: lemlästa (sv)
- Ukrainian: розчлено́вувати impf (rozčlenóvuvaty), розчленува́ти pf (rozčlenuváty)
cut into pieces
- Finnish: paloitella (fi) (to cut), hajottaa (fi) (to otherwise divide)
- German: zerstückeln (de)
- Greek: διαμελίζω (el) (diamelízo)
- Ancient Greek: διαμελίζω (diamelízō)
- Maori: kotikoti
- Polish: ćwiartować
- Portuguese: desmembrar (pt)
- Russian: расчленя́ть (ru) impf (rasčlenjátʹ), расчлени́ть (ru) pf (rasčlenítʹ)
- Spanish: descuartizar (es), desmembrar (es)
- Swedish: stycka (sv)
- Tagalog: hiwagin