verb [VN]
1 to cut or tear the dead body of a person or an animal into pieces:
Police say the body had been dismembered.
2 (formal) to divide a country, an organization, etc. into smaller parts:
The British railway network has gradually been dismembered.
dismemberment noun [U]
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