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dismemberment

Noun

Meaning

The act of dismembering, or the state of being dismembered; cutting in piece; m/tilation; division; separation.

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Dismemberment abortion is a practice in which the unborn child is literally ripped apart limb by limb and taken out of the mother. Source: Internet

He was strangled and his body left on Dahmer's bedroom floor for three days before being dismembered, with Dahmer photographing the dismemberment process. Source: Internet

It advocated Socialism, free love, the dismemberment of the British Empire, the abolition of the Army and Navy, and so on and so forth. Source: Internet

Miller bled to death within minutes. citation Dahmer then posed the nude body for various suggestive Polaroid photographs before placing the body in his bathtub for dismemberment. Source: Internet

However, some scholars argue that although post-mortem dismemberment was the practice during funeral rites, cannibalism was not. Source: Internet

Charles Dance’s icy Tywin Lannister, ruling over a kingdom more interested in dismemberment than disgruntled members, would have the Rains of Castamere playing as soon as he saw those pretenders to the throne. Source: Internet

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