(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.
Massacre
Definition:
(n.) The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people; as, the massacre on St. Bartholomew's Day.
(n.) Murder.
(n.) To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher; to slaughter; -- limited to the killing of human beings.
Example Sentences:
(1) Activists said the alleged massacre came a day after 72 were killed at the nearby village of Bayda .
(2) The consequences for Syria have been multiple massacres, ethnic cleansing, torture, a humanitarian crisis and the risk of the country's breakup.
(3) On hearing the news of Mladic's arrest, I instantly thought of a man I got to know when visiting Sarajevo and the Republika Srpska to write about the Srebrenica massacre.
(4) A Yazidi lawmaker, a Kurdish security official and an Iraqi official from the nearby city of Sinjar gave similar accounts, saying Isis fighters had massacred scores of Yazidi men on Friday afternoon after seizing Kocho.
(5) Heinz Lammerding, the Waffen SS general in command of the unit that committed the massacre, was captured by allied forces but never extradited to France and was sentenced to death in absentia by a Bordeaux military court in 1951.
(6) Assad will massacre the masses if we remain silent.
(7) The document is dated 19 days before the alleged massacre.
(8) The aim was to supplant the informal militias, known as the " shabiha ", who were often accused of massacres, with a more disciplined and better armed force.
(9) It traces his progress of degradation unhampered by constituted authority and concludes with his magnum opus--the greatest massacre of South Sea Islanders in the annals of the South Sea slave trade.
(10) Elisabeth Haukeland’s eldest son and daughter both survived the massacre, and they aren’t going back to Utøya.
(11) The Libya Quartet, which includes the Africa Union, the European Union and the Arab League, is likely to discuss the massacre of up to 140 civilians and soldiers at an airbase in southern Libya in one of the single most shocking incidents since the civil war started in 2011.
(12) Police investigating the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University massacre, which left 33 dead, mainly students, blamed Cho, a fourth-year English student who lived on the campus, for earlier incidents ranging from stalking women to setting fire to a dormitory.
(13) The Jedwabne massacre and Kaminski's line that "Jews should say sorry for killing Poles" during the second world war is by far the most important of the many contentious issues on this man.
(14) The people were free, the dictator was dead, a mooted massacre had been averted – and all this without any obvious boots on the ground.
(15) On Thursday, the attorney general, Loretta Lynch, had described the massacre as a “barbaric crime”, and said it was being looked at as a hate crime.
(16) Rory Kinnear is captivating as the journalist covering a massacre.
(17) "It is happening at such a pace that it's going to be a massacre here," he said.
(18) Even though I might be faced with nothing but a series of tragedies, I will still struggle, still show my opposition,” he said in a 1988 interview, before the Tiananmen Square massacre.
(19) Among the most serious charges he faced involved responsibility for the massacre of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in the enclave of Srebrenica in July 1995.
(20) The massacre was not committed by "the Poles" against "the Jews", but was a vile crime committed by specific individuals.