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All dismember synonyms

dis·mem·ber
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verb dismember

  • dismantle — to deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipment, defenses, etc.: to dismantle a ship; to dismantle a fortress.
  • cripple — A person with a physical disability or a serious permanent injury is sometimes referred to as a cripple.
  • sunder — to separate; part; divide; sever.
  • maim — to deprive of the use of some part of the body by wounding or the like; cripple: The explosion maimed him for life.
  • mutilate — to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting.
  • sever — to separate (a part) from the whole, as by cutting or the like.
  • anatomize — If you anatomise a subject or an issue, you examine it in great detail.
  • divide — to separate into parts, groups, sections, etc.
  • disassemble — to take apart.
  • dissect — to cut apart (an animal body, plant, etc.) to examine the structure, relation of parts, or the like.
  • dismount — to get off or alight from a horse, bicycle, etc.
  • part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
  • amputate — To amputate someone's arm or leg means to cut all or part of it off in an operation because it is diseased or badly damaged.
  • disjoint — to separate or disconnect the joints or joinings of.
  • dislocate — to put out of place; put out of proper relative position; displace: The glacier dislocated great stones. The earthquake dislocated several buildings.
  • rend — to separate into parts with force or violence: The storm rent the ship to pieces.
  • take down — made or constructed so as to be easily dismantled or disassembled.
  • cut up — If you cut something up, you cut it into several pieces.
  • tear apart — rip to pieces
  • disarticulate — Separate (bones) at the joints.
  • dislimb — To remove a limb from, to dismember, to pull off arms or legs.
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