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.
He was strangled and his body left on Dahmer's bedroom floor for three days before being dismembered, with Dahmer photographing the dismemberment process.
It advocated Socialism, free love, the dismemberment of the British Empire, the abolition of the Army and Navy, and so on and so forth.
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.
However, some scholars argue that although post-mortem dismemberment was the practice during funeral rites, cannibalism was not.
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.