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Word Meanings - DISMEMBER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up. Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. Pope. A society lacerated and dismembered. Gladstone. By whose hands the blow should be struck

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1. To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up. Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. Pope. A society lacerated and dismembered. Gladstone. By whose hands the blow should be struck which would dismember that once mighty empire. Buckle. 2. To deprive of membership. They were dismembered by vote of the house. R. North. Syn. -- To disjoint; dislocate; dilacerate; mutilate; divide; sever.

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    See BRAKEMAN
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    A simple infinitive with to, having a modifier between the verb and the to; as in, to largely decrease. Called also cleft infinitive.
  • DERANGER
    One who deranges.
  • DERANGEMENT
    The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
  • BREAKABLE
    Capable of being broken.
  • SHIVER-SPAR
    A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
  • DERANGED
    Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.
  • SPLITFEET
    The Fissipedia.
  • SHATTER-BRAINED; SHATTER-PATED
    Disordered or wandering in intellect; hence, heedless; wild. J. Goodman.
  • DISRUPTIVE
    Causing, or tending to cause, disruption; caused by disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery. Nichol.
  • SPLIT SWITCH
    = Point switch.
  • SHATTER
    cf. D. schateren to crack, to make a great noise, OD. schetteren to 1. To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters
  • SPLIT-TAIL
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  • DISMEMBER
    1. To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up. Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. Pope. A society lacerated and dismembered. Gladstone. By whose hands the blow should be struck
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    In croquet, etc., a shot or stroke in which one drives in different directions one's own and the opponent's ball placed in contact.
  • DISSIPATED
    1. Squandered; scattered. "Dissipated wealth." Johnson. 2. Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate. A life irregular and dissipated. Johnson.
  • SPLIT DYNAMOMETER
    An electric dynamometer having two coils so arranged that one carries the primary current, and the other the secondary current, of a transformer.
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  • SPLIT WHEEL
    = Split pulley.
  • SHATTERY
    Easily breaking into pieces; not compact; loose of texture; brittle; as, shattery spar.
  • MAKE AND BREAK
    Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
  • LAWBREAKER
    One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
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    To shiver or break in pieces.
  • OATHBREAKING
    The violation of an oath; perjury. Shak
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    One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n.
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    To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface.
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    See PARBREAK
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    A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection. "Mobs and outbreaks." J. H. Newman. The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind. Shak.

 

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