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

The social safety net has tears, but the solution is to sew them up — not dismember the children who should be swaddled in it.

From Washington Post ● May 13, 2022

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

“There he tinkered with dismembered clocks and toasters, and the pathos of dismantled gears, springs and wires infected him with a tenderness for mechanisms that spill their guts for all the world to see.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

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

No toes or feet were dismembered in the celebration.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2023

“It started very early,” he said, producing as evidence a faded, dismembered copy of the U.N.’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights that he received as a teenager in school and still carries in his wallet.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2022

The carcase of one of the springbuck had been dismembered and divided by lot among the faithful six.

From Lodges in the Wilderness by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

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

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

Once the third aunt who worked at the laundry ran out and bought us bags of candy to hold over our noses; my mother was dismembering skunk on the chopping block.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston