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Definition of dismemberment in English: dismembermentnoundɪsˈmɛmbəm(ə)ntdɪsˈmɛmbərmənt mass noun1The action of cutting off a person's or animal's limbs. graphic pictures of torture and dismemberment Example sentencesExamples - Alas, the second film is an absolutely harrowing tale of torture and dismemberment.
- One scene involves the total dismemberment of a victim and the packaging of the body parts for storage in a meat-processing plant.
- Berlin learns of an old case involving the serial murder and pathological dismemberment of certain body parts of the victims.
- The psycho family takes pampered kids fascinated by death and dismemberment and puts them through the wringer of the real thing.
- Le Cochon records the slaughter and dismemberment of a pig and the process of transforming the dead animal into various food products.
- The disemboweling and dismemberment and fake blood may have caused some digestion problems.
- Nevertheless, Treadwell was aware, at least on an intellectual level, that he courted dismemberment or death.
- Monstrous imagery percolates through his work, as does the theme of dismemberment.
- Naturally things start slow (the first death comes quick and with little gore) and by the end we get chainsaw dismemberments.
- We literally see rivers of blood, disembowelings, slit throats, and dismemberment.
2The action of partitioning or dividing up a territory or organization. the dissolution and dismemberment of the British empire Example sentencesExamples - To allay state fears of dismemberment, a proposed new state has to be supported by the parliament of the state affected.
- On his accession, his priority was to save Macedon from dismemberment by hostile powers, poised for the kill.
- Nothing would have led more swiftly to the country's dismemberment than a policy of discrimination in the granting of privileges between one power and another.
- Alexander felt that the dismemberment of Poland, over which his grandmother Catherine had presided, had been a shameful act.
- Mill saw some of these local prejudices as some protection against a wholly centralized state; so a case for the reform of local government, not for its dismemberment.
- Regional elections in the early 1990s shifted the reform agenda from liberalization to subnational independence and central state dismemberment.
- This would see much of the rest of the company, which is subsidized by the printing revenue, looking highly vulnerable to dismemberment.
- It threatened multicultural states with dismemberment, whether by secession or irredentist demands.
- It looks like the company is heading for the knackers' yard for dismemberment by its banks.
- The company wanted the breakup to be referred to as "divestiture" only a few days earlier, but let it be dismemberment if it wishes.
Definition of dismemberment in US English: dismembermentnoundisˈmembərməntdɪsˈmɛmbərmənt 1The action of cutting off a person's or animal's limbs. graphic pictures of torture and dismemberment Example sentencesExamples - Le Cochon records the slaughter and dismemberment of a pig and the process of transforming the dead animal into various food products.
- The disemboweling and dismemberment and fake blood may have caused some digestion problems.
- Berlin learns of an old case involving the serial murder and pathological dismemberment of certain body parts of the victims.
- The psycho family takes pampered kids fascinated by death and dismemberment and puts them through the wringer of the real thing.
- Nevertheless, Treadwell was aware, at least on an intellectual level, that he courted dismemberment or death.
- Alas, the second film is an absolutely harrowing tale of torture and dismemberment.
- Monstrous imagery percolates through his work, as does the theme of dismemberment.
- One scene involves the total dismemberment of a victim and the packaging of the body parts for storage in a meat-processing plant.
- We literally see rivers of blood, disembowelings, slit throats, and dismemberment.
- Naturally things start slow (the first death comes quick and with little gore) and by the end we get chainsaw dismemberments.
2The action of partitioning or dividing up a territory or organization. the dissolution and dismemberment of the British empire Example sentencesExamples - It threatened multicultural states with dismemberment, whether by secession or irredentist demands.
- The company wanted the breakup to be referred to as "divestiture" only a few days earlier, but let it be dismemberment if it wishes.
- Nothing would have led more swiftly to the country's dismemberment than a policy of discrimination in the granting of privileges between one power and another.
- On his accession, his priority was to save Macedon from dismemberment by hostile powers, poised for the kill.
- Regional elections in the early 1990s shifted the reform agenda from liberalization to subnational independence and central state dismemberment.
- Mill saw some of these local prejudices as some protection against a wholly centralized state; so a case for the reform of local government, not for its dismemberment.
- It looks like the company is heading for the knackers' yard for dismemberment by its banks.
- To allay state fears of dismemberment, a proposed new state has to be supported by the parliament of the state affected.
- Alexander felt that the dismemberment of Poland, over which his grandmother Catherine had presided, had been a shameful act.
- This would see much of the rest of the company, which is subsidized by the printing revenue, looking highly vulnerable to dismemberment.
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