dismember
Other forms: dismembered; dismembering; dismembers
The verb dismember means to sever the limbs from a body. If you watch a horror movie, one of the necessary plot elements is for the villain to dismember a body or two... or twelve.
Dismember is from the Latin word dismembrare, which itself is from the Latin roots de, meaning "take away," and membrum, meaning "limb." The verb dismember also means to cut up into pieces or take apart. If you are doing genealogical research on your family tree you may have difficulty if your ancestors are from a region that was dismembered. You may know your family was from the Soviet Union, for example, but since that country was dismembered, you now may need to check records in Uzbekistan or Azerbaijan to find the branches of your family tree.
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separate the limbs from the bodytype of:killcause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
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divide into pieces“our department was dismembered when our funding dried up”synonyms: discerp, take apart
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Here are links to our lists for the play: Act I, Act II, Act III, Act IV, Act V Here are links to other plays by William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Hamlet, King Lear, Julius Caesar, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Othello, A Midsummer Night's Dream
In this translation from German by Hilda Rosner, a young man named Siddhartha, not entirely satisfied with the religious ways of his Brahmin family and Gotama the Buddha, decides to seek his own path to spiritual enlightenment.
Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office as the 16th President of the United States on March 4, 1861. Since his election the previous November Southern states had met and declared their intent to secede. In his inaugural address Lincoln made it clear that he did not consider the Southern states to be enemies but that it was his duty to protect the Union, by force if necessary.