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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats