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Dismember (Verb)

Divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war".

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

The city was dismembered by the creation of multiple separate neighborhoods with their own governments.
The company was dismembered after filing for bankruptcy, splitting into different subsidiaries.
Our team was dismembered when the league reduced the number of players allowed per squad.
The group of volunteers was dismembered by internal conflicts and conflicting interests.
The large landholdings were dismembered over time as the family sold off smaller sections.

Separate the limbs from the body; "the tiger dismembered the tourist".

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

The brutal killer dismembered the victim's body in a desperate attempt to conceal his crime.
During the autopsy, examiners found that the shark had begun to dismember its prey long before rescue teams arrived.
In a gruesome turn of events, local police were shocked to discover that the suspect had dismembered his accomplice to avoid being implicated.
The rare species of spiders were known to dismember their victims by injecting a paralyzing venom before slowly consuming their prey.
In the midst of the chaos, the beast began to dismember several of the helpless villagers who had wandered into its territory.