transitive verb. To cut, tear, or pull off the limbs of.

transitive verb. To divide into pieces.

To separate the members of; divide limb from limb; tear or cut in pieces; dilacerate.

To strip of members or constituent parts; sever and distribute the parts of; take a part or parts from: as, to dismember a kingdom.

To withdraw or exclude from membership, as of a society or body; declare to be no longer a member.

Synonyms and

To disjoint, pull a part, break up.

transitive verb. To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up.

transitive verb. To deprive of membership.

verb. To remove the limbs of.

verb. To cut or otherwise divide something into pieces.

verb. separate the limbs from the body

verb. divide into pieces

"I know they 'cheat' on them to make them easier to "dismember" as my kids and I used to say, but it's still aggravating when you encounter them in print."

mutilate  

dismemberment  

divide  kill  part  separate  

December  November  September  ember  member  

cripple  defoliate  denude  dilacerate  disassemble  

dismembered  dismembering  dismembers