dismemberment
dis mem ber muhnt
- n the removal of limbs; being cut to pieces
- In West Pakistan, a political upheaval is a foregone conclusion in the wake of defeat and dismemberment.
- It was, Mao later told his biographer Edgar Snow, a time when "the dismemberment of China" seemed imminent, and only heroic actions by China's youth could save the day.
- Major themes of the precode horror comics are decapitation, or dismemberment, or disfigurement of some kind, such as destruction of the face by acid, or the poking out of eyes.