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dismembered

dismembered is the simple past and past participle of dismember.

Meaning of dismember

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.

Adjective

dismembered (not comparable)

  1. From which the limbs have been removed

Words formed from dismembered

Questions about dismembered

What does dismembered mean?
Dismembered means from which the limbs have been removed.
What is dismembered the simple past and past participle of?
Dismembered is the simple past and past participle of dismember.
What part of speech is dismembered?
Dismembered is an adjective.

Words near dismembered in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dismembered (page history and authors); dismember (page history and authors). 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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