DISMEMBERMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dismemberment mean? 

• DISMEMBERMENT (noun)
  The noun DISMEMBERMENT has 1 sense:

1. the removal of limbs; being cut to pieces

  Familiarity information: DISMEMBERMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISMEMBERMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The removal of limbs; being cut to pieces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

dismemberment; taking apart

Hypernyms ("dismemberment" is a kind of...):

torture; torturing (the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason)

mutilation (an injury that causes disfigurement or that deprives you of a limb or other important body part)

Derivation:

dismember (separate the limbs from the body)