(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.
Dismemberment
Definition:
(n.) The act of dismembering, or the state of being dismembered; cutting in piece; m/tilation; division; separation.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a statement to the UN's general assembly last summer, Ramgoolam said: "The dismemberment of part of our territory, the Chagos archipelago – prior to independence – by the then colonial power, the United Kingdom, in clear breach of international law, leaves the process of decolonisation not only of Mauritius, but of Africa , incomplete."
(2) 11 cases were classified as defensive and 16 cases as offensive dismemberment of bodies (among these: 2 cases of dismemberment after stealing the corpse and 2 cases of killing the victims by decapitation).
(3) Findings suggest that a high percent of advertisements: (1) place women in submissive positions to men; (2) place women in unnatural poses; (3) emphasize dismemberment of body parts; (4) focus on sexuality rather than wellness.
(4) Pro-Russia activists point out that one obvious outcome of events has been the complete dismemberment of Odessa’s pro-Russia political movement.
(5) But strengthening the Kurdish army, with the UK already supplying military equipment, could speed up the creation of an independent Kurdish state and the dismemberment of Iraq.
(6) We are seated on sofas in a cavernous, wood-floored room in his Los Angeles base, Studio Della Morte, where instruments (several gongs, a discarded accordion on the floor) compete for space with macabre props (cow skulls, dolls in various states of metamorphosis or dismemberment) and oddball paintings (a hare with boxing gloves).
(7) And we found one: this year’s winner has written – at a variety of lengths up to and including books – on subjects from WikiLeaks to the dismemberment of Ukraine and the surveillance revelations of Edward Snowden .” Harding was the Guardian’s Moscow bureau chief from 2007 until 2011, when the Kremlin expelled him from the country in the first case of its kind since the cold war.
(8) In the exercise of such authority they will take such steps, including the complete dismemberment of Germany, as they deem requisite for future peace and security."
(9) He gave fierce lectures decrying the dismemberment of music libraries (especially his beloved Henry Watson music library in Manchester), and the decline of Latin and classical music provision in schools.
(10) 12 cases were classified as defensive and 14 cases as offensive dismemberment of bodies; 2 cases of necrophilous dismemberment occurred after stealing the corpse and 3 victims were killed by intravital decapitation or mutilation.
(11) Meanwhile Mr Letwin successfully urged Lady Thatcher to “use Scotland as a trail-blazer”, a discriminatory approach for which the Conservative party is still paying in Scotland and of which the ultimate price may yet be the dismemberment of the United Kingdom.
(12) In fact, limb dismemberment is something of a general Star Wars trope , with Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader (twice) and Samuel L Jackson’s Mace Windu all losing body parts over the course of the six movies.
(13) It is a competitive field as to when this event happened but the pointless, unnecessary dismemberment of the 115-year-old UK record company has to be in the dismal top 10.
(14) Cameron and his gang will surely not dare to continue the dismemberment of the NHS after this.
(15) Nine cases of defensive corpse dismemberment are reported.
(16) They fear dismemberment with all the emotion (and anxiety) you discover when you talk Kashmir in Delhi.
(17) The creation of descendants with the same hereditary factors is possible in mammals up to now only by the dismemberment of the germ up to the eight-cell-stage.
(18) 2.55pm BST Brazil bashing Phil Scolari suggested in the aftermath of his dull team's dismemberment by Germany that he bore most of the blame.
(19) The psychological problems doctors experience with dismemberment of the fetus may be relieved with development of new techniques.
(20) 31 cases of criminal dismemberment or mutilation were investigated in the period from 1959 to 1987 at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Hamburg.