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How to pronounce dismember in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms discerp, take apart
Type of divide, part, separate


our department was dismembered when our funding dried up.
Type Words
Type of kill
Derivation dismemberment


the tiger dismembered the tourist.

Examples of dismember

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He would dismember the in-laws and dump them in the desert if Martinez didn't pay up.
From the washingtonpost.com
Each tree takes time to dismember, and a high fence consumes a lot of wood.
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Isaac is armed with some familiar weapons to help him dismember his foes.
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To meet these commitments Mr Tronchetti Provera has had to dismember his business empire.
From the economist.com
It is apparent that the US plans to encircle China and, eventually, dismember the country.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
Asian Elephants were used to crush, dismember, or torture captives in public executions.
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They taught him how to dismember and remove the bone from animals after slaughtering them.
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Its neighbouring states were able to slowly dismember the Commonwealth.
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His son said he used a hacksaw and a knife to dismember his father.
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More examples
  • Separate the limbs from the body; "the tiger dismembered the tourist"
  • Divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war"
  • Dismember (also known by members as the Untitled album) is the eighth studio album by death metal band Dismember. It was released April 1, 2008. A promotional copy of this album was leaked onto p2p networks in early 2008.
  • Dismember is a Swedish death metal band that formed in 1988. They are well known in the extreme metal underground.
  • To remove the limbs of; To cut or otherwise divide something into pieces
  • (Dismembered) Applied to birds having neither feet nor legs; also, to animals whose members are separated.
  • (dismembered) used of a charge cut into pieces, which are set a small distance apart but preserve the original form
  • (v) - cut into small parts