dismemberment meaning
Noun: dismemberment `dis'memburmunt
- The removal of limbs; being cut to pieces
- taking apart
Derived forms: dismemberments
See also: dismember
Type of: mutilation, torture, torturing
Encyclopedia: Dismemberment
Examples
More: Next- at a few places, inclusions can be seen to be derived by dismemberment of partings.
- tomorrow morning we've got dismemberment there is also one for the afternoon
- we will pay the insured a lump sum payment in the event of a death, burns or dismemberment as a result of an accident
- because of the disagreement about each other, the suggestion for dismemberment was given up when germany surrendered
- the first operation of alchemy therefore addressed itself to the dismemberment of this confining structure and reducing it to a condition of creative chaos
