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Dismemberment

Dismemberment Meaning & Definition
Dismemberment Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Dismemberment?

[n] the removal of limbs; being cut to pieces

Synonyms | Synonyms for Dismemberment: taking apart

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See Also | mutilation | torture | torturing

Dismemberment In Webster's Dictionary

\Dis*mem"ber*ment\, n. [Cf. OF. desmembrement, F. d['e]membrement.] The act of dismembering, or the state of being dismembered; cutting in piece; m?tilation; division; separation. The Castilians would doubtless have resented the dismemberment of the unwieldy body of which they formed the head. --Macaulay.

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