dismember

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

From National Geographic ● Jan. 22, 2024

On their first day as students at London’s prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, or RADA, in 2007, Hizli remembered a teacher telling them “they were going to dismember us and put us back together.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2023

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

Instead, the victors deprived the French of their conquests and imposed a modest indemnity, but they did not dismember the country.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 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

The very period of his reign witnesses the sudden growth of the Lithuanian power which dismembers the Russian appanages from the West, while the Tartar squeezes them into one mass from the East.

From Secret Diplomatic History of The Eighteenth Century by Karl Marx

Now the dismembered statue has become a symbol of a city - and a nation - struggling to reckon with its darkest chapters.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2024

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

No toes or feet were dismembered in the celebration.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2023

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

The fowl is dismembered with a jack-knife in a twinkling, and shared.

From Sea and Sardinia by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

“She understood the ongoing national effort to disremember — this startling combination of dismembering and remembering — to protect the innocence of America,” Glaude says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

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

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2024

For such a large statue, dismembering MLK and Coretta Scott King is... a choice.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2023

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

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

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

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann