dismembered

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Only, sometimes, these cadavers are not truly donated — and the dead person never consented to have their body dismembered.

From Salon • Oct. 27, 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

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

“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 whole must needs be dismembered into component parts, into smaller areas or furlongs, each stretching over land of one and the same condition, and separated from land of different quality and situation.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul