dismemberment

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The act of dismembering

The metapodials appear to have been marked during dismemberment from the lower limbs.

Removal from membership; detachment from an organization, group, etc

As the Italian East African Empire was on the verge of extinction in the autumn of 1941, East African Command was created by dismemberment from Middle East.

The state or condition of being dismembered

Is not the fair fabric of Society itself, with all its royal mantles and pontifical stoles, whereby, from nakedness and dismemberment, we are organized into Polities, into nations, and a whole co-operating Mankind, the creation, as has here been often irrefragably evinced, of the Tailor alone?.

{n} the cutting off of a member or a part, the partition of a state
Dismemberment is the act of cutting, tearing, pulling, wrenching or otherwise removing, the limbs of a living thing. It may be practiced upon human beings as a form of capital punishment, as a result of a traumatic accident, or in connection with murder, suicide, or cannibalism. As opposed to surgical amputation of the limbs, dismemberment is often fatal to all but the simplest of creatures. In criminology, a distinction is made between offensive and defensive dismemberment
Dismemberment is the cutting or pulling into pieces of a body
(See: accidental dismemberment, double dismemberment and single dismemberment )
the removal of limbs; being cut to pieces
Loss, or loss of use of specified members of the body, resulting from accidental bodily injury
The loss of, or loss of use of, specified members of the body resulting from accidental bodily injury
Loss of limb or sight
Accidental loss of (or of the use of) a body part
The loss of, or loss of use of, specified members of the body resulting from accidental bodily injury (H)
Dismemberment is the breaking up into smaller parts of a country or organization. the case for dismemberment or even abolition of the BBC
{i} dissection, tearing to pieces, amputation; dividing up
Accidental loss of limb or sight
The act of dismembering, or the state of being dismembered; cutting in piece; m&?;tilation; division; separation
dismemberment

    Hyphenation

    dis·mem·berment

    Turkish pronunciation

    dîsmembırmınt

    Pronunciation

    /dəsˈmembərmənt/ /dɪsˈmɛmbɜrmənt/

    Etymology

    () From dismember +‎ -ment.
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