dismembered - Definition and Meaning

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(adjective)

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(of a body) having had the limbs cut off

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a dismembered corpse

(adjective)

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(of a territory or organization) partitioned or divided up

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dismembered communities

(verb)

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cut off the limbs of (a person or animal)

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he watched a doctor dismember the body

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(verb)

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partition or divide up (a territory or organization)

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the winning powers of World War I set out to dismember the Ottoman Empire