Associations to the word «Dismember»

Wiktionary

DISMEMBER, verb. (transitive) To remove the limbs of.
DISMEMBER, verb. (transitive) To cut or otherwise divide something into pieces.

Dictionary definition

DISMEMBER, verb. Separate the limbs from the body; "the tiger dismembered the tourist".
DISMEMBER, verb. Divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope