dismember
verb
dis·mem·ber
(ˌ)dis-ˈmem-bər 
dismembered; dismembering
(ˌ)dis-ˈmem-b(ə-)riŋ
1
: to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of
2
: to break up or tear into pieces
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Examples of dismember in a Sentence
The victims' bodies had been dismembered and buried in the basement.
quickly dismembered the old toolshed and hauled it off to the dump
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Listen to this article A 23-year-old is charged with killing his pregnant sister at his Lakeville home and dismembering her body.
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Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 28 May 2024
In the Morris Black case, Durst admitted to killing his ornery neighbor in Galveston, dismembering his body, and tossing the parts in Galveston Bay.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 19 May 2024
The family of a woman killed and dismembered in 2017 by her boyfriend, a Brooklyn pimp who forced her into prostitution, rejoiced as he was hit with a life sentence in Brooklyn Federal Court Friday.
—Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2024
Her body was found dismembered in the woods of North Fairmount in November.
—Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 4 Apr. 2024
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Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 28 May 2024
In the Morris Black case, Durst admitted to killing his ornery neighbor in Galveston, dismembering his body, and tossing the parts in Galveston Bay.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 19 May 2024
The family of a woman killed and dismembered in 2017 by her boyfriend, a Brooklyn pimp who forced her into prostitution, rejoiced as he was hit with a life sentence in Brooklyn Federal Court Friday.
—Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2024
Her body was found dismembered in the woods of North Fairmount in November.
—Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 4 Apr. 2024
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dismember
verb
dis·mem·ber
(ˈ)dis-ˈmem-bər
dismembered; dismembering
-b(ə-)riŋ
1
: to cut off or separate the limbs or parts of
2
: to break up or tear into pieces
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dismember
transitive verb
dis·mem·ber
(ˈ)dis-ˈmem-bər
dismembered; dismembering
-b(ə-)riŋ
: to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of
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