dismembering
present participle ofdismember
dismember
verb[T]
uk/dɪˈsmem.bər/us/dɪˈsmem.bɚ/tocut,tear, orpullthearmsandlegsoff thebodyof adeadpersonoranimal:
Thepolicefoundthe dismemberedbodyof ayoungman in the murderer'sfreezer.
literary
todivideacountryor anempireinto differentparts:
The UNprotestedat the dismembering of Bosnia.
Cutting off and disconnecting
- amputation
- Brexit
- castration
- chop
- chopsomethingoff
- crop
- cut
- cut back
- disconnected
- disconnection
- dismember
- dismemberment
- dissection
- dock
- post-amputation
- saw
- sawsomethingoff
- sever
- unjoined
- unmoor
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Separating and dividing
Examplesofdismembering
dismembering
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Under the "guardianship tradition" we feel compelled to watch over human bodies - our own and everyone else's - and to preventdismembering.
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However, after a year's moratorium, they too seemed to propose adismemberingof council estates.
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In the four years since the actualdismemberingof the original constituency the political parties have settled down to the task which the alteration left them.
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Five people hid up the mast among the rigging, where they witnessed thedismemberingof their friends and colleagues' bodies below.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Though they had been in the process of writing material for a second album, the split with the record label resulted in adismemberingof the band.
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