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dismember

/ˌdɪsˈmɛmbə(ɹ)/

dismember verb: to remove the limbs of.

Verb

dismember (third-person singular simple present dismembers, present participle dismembering, simple past and past participle dismembered)

  1. (transitive) To remove the limbs of.
    • Death by drawing and quartering usually dismembered the condemned person.
  2. (transitive) To cut or otherwise divide something into pieces.
    • The killer methodically dismembered the bodies of his victims.
    • The American Civil War nearly dismembered the Union.

dismember meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Tagalog

dismember in Tamil

துண்டாடு

dismember in Urdu

جدا کرنا, ٹکڑے ٹکڑے کرنا

dismember in Malayalam

disjoint, joint, pull apart
അംഗവിച്ഛേദം ചെയ്ക, അവയവങ്ങൾ വേറാക്കുക, സന്ധിബന്ധഭംഗം വരുത്തുക, ശരീരഭാഗങ്ങൾ വെട്ടി വേർപെടുത്തുക, ഖണ്ഡിക്ക, ചീന്തിക്കീറുക

dismember in Tagalog

cut into pieces
hiwagin
More languagesFewer languages
dismember in Arabic
بَتَرَ batara, فَكَّكَ fakkaka

Forms of dismember

third-person singular presentdismembers
present participledismembering
past participledismembered
pastdismembered
alternative formdismembre

Past tense of dismember: dismembered

Origin of dismember

From Middle English, from Old French desmembrer, from des- (“de-”) + membre (“limb”) + -er (“verbal suffix”).

Words formed from dismember

Words that rhyme with dismember

Questions about dismember

What does dismember mean?
Dismember means to remove the limbs of.
What is dismember in Tamil?
Dismember in Tamil is துண்டாடு. See Dismember meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dismember?
Dismember is a verb.
How do you pronounce dismember?
Dismember is pronounced /ˌdɪsˈmɛmbə(ɹ)/.
What is the past tense of dismember?
The past tense of dismember is dismembered.

Words near dismember in the dictionary

  1. dismaying
  2. dismayingly
  3. dismayings
  4. dismays
  5. disme
  6. dismember
  7. dismembered
  8. dismemberer
  9. dismemberers
  10. dismembereth
  11. dismembering

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dismember (page history and authors); dismember (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dismember (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dismember (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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