DISMEMBER, verb transitive [dis and member.] 1. To divide limb from limb; to separate a member from the body; to tear or cut in pieces; to dilacerate; to mutilate. Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. 2. To separate a part from the main body; to divide; to sever; as, to dismember an empire, kingdom or republic. Poland was dismembered by the neighboring powers.
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