dismember

About 0.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To remove the limbs of.

   Death by drawing and quartering usually dismembered the condemned person.

2. verb To cut or otherwise divide something into pieces.

   The killer methodically dismembered the bodies of his victims.

Similar words

take apart tear disrupt dismembre dislimb belimb delimb limb dismantle unlimb

Often followed by

the it and or a his germany her them their

Word family

dismembered dismembering dismemberment dismemberments dismembers