dismember

Unlike electrical work or cabinet construction, paint is statistically less likely to kill, injure or dismember you.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

He’s seen ants work as a team to dismember prey in minutes.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 22, 2024

Mr. Erdogan said the order to dismember Mr. Khashoggi came from the “highest levels” of the Saudi government, but avoided accusing the prince directly.

From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022

First, this case was the last gasp for the CFPB’s opponents, who had hoped to dismember it through the courts.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 29, 2020

I’m pretty sure the only thing you could dismember is a sandwich.”

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

"The French do not expect from the Macron leadership that it dismembers our overseas territories behind their backs," she said, describing the territories as "true levers of power, influence and economic development".

From Barron's ● Dec. 18, 2025

Fine takes on this king of all biases with admirable vigor, and it’s a pleasure — albeit a strenuous one — to follow the action as she dismembers the beast.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2017

That distinction belongs to the Financial Stability Oversight Council—the beak with which Dodd-Frank dismembers its prey. 

From Forbes ● Jul. 7, 2014

And he digs a deeper hole by mangling the Beatles' She's Leaving Home, whose lyric he dismembers with bizarre changes of tone, volume and intonation.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2011

Surely no fate can be too bad for the man who dismembers books.

From The Book-Hunter at Home by P. B. M. Allan

And so, like the dismembered Black Knight in that iconic fight scene from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” they comically cling to their mortally wounded impeachment scheme, proclaiming, “‘Tis but a scratch!”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2024

A dark cloud hangs over the whole enterprise, with the perils of the sea and forbidden love illustrated by long, discordant drones and dismembered sounds.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2023

Ghafoor’s connection to Khashoggi, the Saudi dissident and Washington Post columnist who was killed and dismembered by Saudi agents in Turkey in 2018, has raised the profile of the case.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2022

You can use your favorite chocolate bar or chocolate chips, though I would applaud your resourcefulness if you dismembered a chocolate bunny or two in service of your baking.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2022

Again, one may safely assert that France, in 1815, would have been dismembered had it not been for Alexander.

From My Memoirs by Marguerite Steinheil

Ingo Arndt captured the red wood ants efficiently dismembering a blue ground beetle to carry into their nest.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2024

During the war, a number of proposals for dismembering the empire had been considered.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

As Mr. Ipalensenda reached a fallen African rosewood tree that he was in the process of dismembering, he called out to his co-workers who were tending a nearby kiln.

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2022

“Despite my strength at the polls, I could not stop the General Assembly from dismembering Nashville,” he said in making his announcement on Tuesday.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2022

An astute politician, Cortes studied the Triple Alliance with a view to dismembering it.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann