dismember

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The squid use it to disable, dismember, and eat their prey.

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  1. transitive verb To cut, tear, or pull off the limbs of.
  2. transitive verb To divide into pieces.

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  • The very consistency of English is inconsistent—don't expect remember to be the opposite of dismember, or pitch, because its vowel sound is like the first one in sphincter, to betoken a withered peach.
  • The squid use it to disable, dismember, and eat their prey. —  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • Maybe what we should have done is decapitated all the captives and dismember their bodies the way the terrorists did to our people. —  Brendan Calling
  • That means you'll be using a similar variety of engineering tools to dismember enemies rather than stocking up on military weaponry to overwhelm your targets with gunfire. —  GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features
  • If our government and consumers decide to dismember Detroit and it happens, then perhaps I'll reconsider. —  DaddyBlogger.com
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dismember:   dismembered ·  dismembering
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English dismembren, from Old French desmembrer, from Vulgar Latin *dismembrāre : Latin dis-, dis- + Latin membrum, limb; see member.

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  1. from Middle English dismembren, desmembren, demembren, from Old French desmembrer, French démembrer (= Provencal Spanish Portuguese desmembrar = Italian dismembrare, smembrare), from Middle Latin dismembrare (equivalent to demembrare: see demember), dismember, from Latin dis- privative + membrum, member.
 

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