What's the difference between dismember and dismembering?
Dismember
Definition:
(v. t.) To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up.
(v. t.) To deprive of membership.
Example Sentences:
(1) Five different surgical procedures were done: internal urethrotomy, Johanson-Leadbetter, patch-graft, Turner-Warwich, and dismembered technics.
(2) The Cali cartel was dismembered by mid-1995, but when members of Samper's own campaign, who were under investigation, implicated him in the drugs scandal, the US administration imposed sanctions, undermining confidence in what had been South America's most stable economy.
(3) One corpse was dismembered by means of an explosive.
(4) That was a good deal less true of the previous year's Munich agreement, in which British and French politicians dismembered Czechoslovakia at the Nazi dictator's pleasure.
(5) A 9-year-old child was admitted to the hospital with congenital left ureteropelvic junction obstruction with massive left pyelocaliectasis and underwent dismembered pyeloplasty of the left kidney under general anesthesia without complications.
(6) Representative Steve King, a Republican from Iowa, pressed her: “You would not assert that it’s inhumane to dismember an unborn baby?” Smith attempted to explain that she would not describe it in the same terms, but he too cut her off.
(7) Tam Fry of the National Obesity Forum, said it was "crazy" to dismember the FSA.
(8) All patients had had dismembered pyeloplasty performed at the age of 9 months to 15 years 2 months.
(9) Some Europeans arrived here with millennial history of chopping off enemies' heads and mounting them on stakes, and of scalping, skinning, dismembering, and other tortures and trophy-hunting.
(10) "I am not in favour of the takeover of excellent and strategically important British companies by failing foreign companies whose actions are fuelled by tax avoidance, and who want to asset-strip the intellectual property of the British company and then dismember it," said Sainsbury, writing in the Guardian.
(11) If the Tories choose to swerve to the right, I don't see how that could possibly be worse than the direction they have already chosen, in which they cut immigration in the wrong places, like student visas, attack the unemployed, scam the disabled, dismember education and outsource or flog anything valuable they can see – to the inevitable profit of someone they were probably at school with.
(12) I’d be surprised if he wants to go down as the PM who dismembered the BBC.” Hall was spotted having a cup of tea in the House of Lords last week with fellow peer Lord Inglewood, a former chair of the House of Lords select committee on communications.
(13) Local taxi driver Philippe told Belgium website DH.be that he walked into the terminal and faced a “pond of blood” and “dismembered bodies”.
(14) We presently prefer a dismembered, nonintubated technique performed through a dorsal lumbotomy approach.
(15) The Culp-DeWeerd vertical flap pyeloplasty and the dismembered Anderson-Hynes technique were modified by means of microsurgical instruments, optical magnification and fine absorbable polyglactine sutures, described in detail and used in 11 and 8 cases, respectively.
(16) The apparent strategy of Pfizer is to take over AstraZeneca, dismember it and put the different parts of it into its three new divisions, with the ultimate aim of selling off one or more.
(17) He blames others for failures and allows them insufficient credit for successes, as the current dismembering of Alistair Darling's reputation shows.
(18) Burrows is already working on dismembering his trust.
(19) EU attempting to unsettle Syriza government in Greece | Letters Read more With the young premier clearly at odds over how to deal with the hardliners, there is growing speculation, not least among eurozone officials, that a new bailout accord to keep the country afloat can only be achieved if Tsipras agrees to dismember his own party and join up with centrist forces to form a new coalition.
(20) The operative technique and drainage procedure varied according to the nature and severity of the abnormality but the dismembered pyeloplasty with extrarenal drainage is favored.
Dismembering
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dismember
Example Sentences:
(1) Five different surgical procedures were done: internal urethrotomy, Johanson-Leadbetter, patch-graft, Turner-Warwich, and dismembered technics.
(2) The Cali cartel was dismembered by mid-1995, but when members of Samper's own campaign, who were under investigation, implicated him in the drugs scandal, the US administration imposed sanctions, undermining confidence in what had been South America's most stable economy.
(3) One corpse was dismembered by means of an explosive.
(4) That was a good deal less true of the previous year's Munich agreement, in which British and French politicians dismembered Czechoslovakia at the Nazi dictator's pleasure.
(5) A 9-year-old child was admitted to the hospital with congenital left ureteropelvic junction obstruction with massive left pyelocaliectasis and underwent dismembered pyeloplasty of the left kidney under general anesthesia without complications.
(6) Representative Steve King, a Republican from Iowa, pressed her: “You would not assert that it’s inhumane to dismember an unborn baby?” Smith attempted to explain that she would not describe it in the same terms, but he too cut her off.
(7) Tam Fry of the National Obesity Forum, said it was "crazy" to dismember the FSA.
(8) All patients had had dismembered pyeloplasty performed at the age of 9 months to 15 years 2 months.
(9) Some Europeans arrived here with millennial history of chopping off enemies' heads and mounting them on stakes, and of scalping, skinning, dismembering, and other tortures and trophy-hunting.
(10) "I am not in favour of the takeover of excellent and strategically important British companies by failing foreign companies whose actions are fuelled by tax avoidance, and who want to asset-strip the intellectual property of the British company and then dismember it," said Sainsbury, writing in the Guardian.
(11) If the Tories choose to swerve to the right, I don't see how that could possibly be worse than the direction they have already chosen, in which they cut immigration in the wrong places, like student visas, attack the unemployed, scam the disabled, dismember education and outsource or flog anything valuable they can see – to the inevitable profit of someone they were probably at school with.
(12) I’d be surprised if he wants to go down as the PM who dismembered the BBC.” Hall was spotted having a cup of tea in the House of Lords last week with fellow peer Lord Inglewood, a former chair of the House of Lords select committee on communications.
(13) Local taxi driver Philippe told Belgium website DH.be that he walked into the terminal and faced a “pond of blood” and “dismembered bodies”.
(14) We presently prefer a dismembered, nonintubated technique performed through a dorsal lumbotomy approach.
(15) The Culp-DeWeerd vertical flap pyeloplasty and the dismembered Anderson-Hynes technique were modified by means of microsurgical instruments, optical magnification and fine absorbable polyglactine sutures, described in detail and used in 11 and 8 cases, respectively.
(16) The apparent strategy of Pfizer is to take over AstraZeneca, dismember it and put the different parts of it into its three new divisions, with the ultimate aim of selling off one or more.
(17) He blames others for failures and allows them insufficient credit for successes, as the current dismembering of Alistair Darling's reputation shows.
(18) Burrows is already working on dismembering his trust.
(19) EU attempting to unsettle Syriza government in Greece | Letters Read more With the young premier clearly at odds over how to deal with the hardliners, there is growing speculation, not least among eurozone officials, that a new bailout accord to keep the country afloat can only be achieved if Tsipras agrees to dismember his own party and join up with centrist forces to form a new coalition.
(20) The operative technique and drainage procedure varied according to the nature and severity of the abnormality but the dismembered pyeloplasty with extrarenal drainage is favored.