Dismember - English meaning

dɪˈsmem.bər

Dismember – definitions in English dictionary

verb
Cut off the limbs of (a person or animal).
Usage examples:
He watched a doctor dismember the body
Synonims:
DisjointJointCut off the limbs ofPull apartCut upChop upBreak upDissectDivideSegmentMutilateHack upButcherTear limb from limbLimb
verb
Partition or divide up (a territory or organization).
Usage examples:
The winning powers of world war i set out to dismember the ottoman empire

verb
To cut a body, esp. of an animal, into pieces

verb
To cut, tear, or pull the arms and legs off the body of a dead person or animal
Usage examples:
The police found the dismembered body of a young man in the murderer's freezer.

verb
To divide a country or an empire into different parts
Usage examples:
Some countries hoped to achieve statehood when the ottoman empire was dismembered.

Dismember translation into English

Dismember: translate from English into Chinese

肢解, 支解, 拆开, 断手足

Dismember: translate from English into Dutch

In stukken snijden, Verbrokkelen, Ontleden, Aan stukken scheuren, Uiteenrukken

Dismember: translate from English into French

Démembrer

Dismember: translate from English into German

Zerstückeln, Zergliedern

Dismember: translate from English into Hindi

खंड-खंड करना, बांटना, विभाजन करना, टुकड़े करना, अंगों को अलग-अलग करना

Dismember: translate from English into Italian

Smembrare

Dismember: translate from English into Korean

절단하다, 팔다리를 절단하다, 분할하다

Dismember: translate from English into Russian

Расчленять, Делить на части, Разрывать на части, Лишать членства

Dismember: translate from English into Spanish

Desmembrar

Word origin

Middle English: from Old French desmembrer, based on Latin dis- ‘apart’ + membrum ‘limb’.

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Dismember – similar words

dismembering

dɪˈsmem.bər

verb
Cut off the limbs of (a person or animal).
Usage examples:
He watched a doctor dismember the body

verb
Present participle of dismember
Usage examples:
The police found the dismembered body of a young man in the murderer's freezer., the un protested a…

verb
To cut, tear, or pull the arms and legs off the body of a dead person or animal
Usage examples:
The police found the dismembered body of a young man in the murderer's freezer.

Dismembering - all meanings in English

dismembered

dɪˈsmem.bər

adjective
(of a body) having had the limbs cut off.
Usage examples:
A dismembered corpse

verb
Cut off the limbs of (a person or animal).
Usage examples:
He watched a doctor dismember the body

verb
Past simple and past participle of dismember
Usage examples:
The police found the dismembered body of a young man in the murderer's freezer., the un protested a…

Dismembered - all meanings in English

Dismember synonims

break up

phrasal verb
Break or cause to break into pieces

phrasal verb
(of a telephone conversation) to become impossible to understand because the connection is not strong enough
Usage examples:
He was on the subway when he called and started to break up before i could answer., the company has…

phrasal verb
To divide, or to divide something, into smaller parts
Usage examples:
The company has been broken up and sold off., manufacturing ceased at the factory when the original…

Break up - all meanings in English

butcher

ˈbʊtʃ.ər

noun
A person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop.
Usage examples:
Markets often have butchers or cooked meat shops that specialize in the head and trotters, that is,…

verb
Slaughter or cut up (an animal) for food.
Usage examples:
A ban on butchering downer cows - animals that stagger, can't walk, or exhibit other signs of bse-w…

adjective
Having an appearance or other qualities of a type traditionally seen as masculine.
Usage examples:
A butch woman in a baseball cap

Butcher - all meanings in English

dissect

daɪˈsekt

verb
Methodically cut up (a body or plant) in order to study its internal parts.
Usage examples:
An animal's eye can be easily dissected

verb
Cut open or cut apart

verb
To cut apart the body of an animal or plant in order to study its structure
Usage examples:
We had to dissect a frog in our biology class., the more experts dissect his tax revision plan, the…

Dissect - all meanings in English

divide

dɪˈvaɪd

verb
Separate or be separated into parts.
Usage examples:
Consumer magazines can be divided into a number of categories

noun
A difference or disagreement between two groups, typically producing tension.
Usage examples:
There was still a profound cultural divide between the parties

verb
To separate into parts or groups, or to cause something to separate in such a way
Usage examples:
[ t ] divide the cake into six equal parts., [ i ] the votes divided equally for and against the pr…

Divide - all meanings in English

joint

noun
A point at which parts of an artificial structure are joined.
Usage examples:
Seal the joint between the roof and the house wall

adjective
Shared, held, or made by two or more people together.
Usage examples:
A joint statement

verb
Provide or fasten (something) with joints.
Usage examples:
Other dolls, lily and jane, made in germany, had jointed arms and legs, eyelashes, eyes that opened…

Joint - all meanings in English

limb

noun
An arm or leg of a person or four-legged animal, or a bird's wing.
Usage examples:
They got out, stretching their cramped limbs

noun
The edge of the disc of a celestial object, especially the sun or moon.
Usage examples:
The eastern limb of the moon

noun
An arm or leg of a person or animal, or an animal’s wing

Limb - all meanings in English

mutilate

verb
Inflict a violent and disfiguring injury on.
Usage examples:
Most of the prisoners had been mutilated

verb
Destroy or injure severely

verb
To damage very seriously, esp. by violently removing a part
Usage examples:
[ u ] creatures living in the woods were blamed for the mutilation of animals in the village.

Mutilate - all meanings in English

segment

noun
Each of the parts into which something is or may be divided.
Usage examples:
A large segment of the local population

verb
Divide (something) into separate parts or sections.
Usage examples:
The unemployed are segmented into two groups

One of several parts that fit with others to make a whole

Segment - all meanings in English

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