1
as in to disrupt
to cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forcibly
quickly dismembered the old toolshed and hauled it off to the dump
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2
as in to dismantle
to take apart
dismembered the stage settings after the last performance
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Taylor was dismembered, with body parts dumped in two locations.
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Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 13 June 2024
Detectives believed property owner and Westfield businessman Herbert Baumeister played a hand in the murder and dismembering of the victims, who were mostly young, gay men that Baumeister lured to his property north of Indianapolis, according to the coroner.
—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 5 June 2024
After the heroin did not kill her, another man broke her neck, dismembered her body and buried her remains in the woods, court records say.
—CBS News, 1 Aug. 2024
Barring a Hail Mary pass of VIPER to another country’s space agency or a private U.S. company, the revolutionary rover will be dismembered for parts within weeks.
—Michael Greshko, Scientific American, 24 July 2024
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Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 13 June 2024
Detectives believed property owner and Westfield businessman Herbert Baumeister played a hand in the murder and dismembering of the victims, who were mostly young, gay men that Baumeister lured to his property north of Indianapolis, according to the coroner.
—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 5 June 2024
After the heroin did not kill her, another man broke her neck, dismembered her body and buried her remains in the woods, court records say.
—CBS News, 1 Aug. 2024
Barring a Hail Mary pass of VIPER to another country’s space agency or a private U.S. company, the revolutionary rover will be dismembered for parts within weeks.
—Michael Greshko, Scientific American, 24 July 2024
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