dismembering

verb

present participle of dismember
1
as in disrupting
to cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forcibly quickly dismembered the old toolshed and hauled it off to the dump

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2
as in dismantling
to take apart dismembered the stage settings after the last performance

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Recent Examples of dismembering Singer D4vd has parted ways with his legal representation in favor of public defenders for his case in which he is accused of allegedly killing and dismembering a 14-year-old girl. — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 31 Aug. 2026 The trial of Brandon Holbrook Prosecutors would argue Holbrook shot Joe Shymanski to death in Joe's Maryland driveway, then drove his body back to Pennsylvania, dismembering him and disposing of his remains. — Nikki Battiste, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026 Two Mundelein-area men accused of killing and dismembering another man will remain in Lake County jail while their cases are pending, a Lake County judge ordered Friday. — Barbara Vitello, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2026 D4vd is accused of murdering 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez and dismembering her body in 2025. — Danielle Bacher, PEOPLE, 30 July 2026 The 21-year-old musician, whose legal name is David Anthony Burke, is accused of killing and dismembering the teenage girl to prevent her from disclosing details about their relationship ahead of the release of his album, prosecutors said. — Jason Kravarik, CNN Money, 27 July 2026 D4vd, whose legal name is David Anthony Burke, has been charged with killing and dismembering the 14-year-old. — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 25 July 2026 Burke allegedly amputated two of Hernandez’s fingers after dismembering her body with a chainsaw to cover up evidence of the tattoo linking the two. — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2026 One image of her right knee showed flecks of blue plastic that prosecutors said came from an inflatable pool Burke used to collect blood while dismembering her body. — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dismembering
  1. disrupting
  2. dismantling
  3. breaking
  4. disconnecting
  5. fracturing
  6. disassembling
  7. destroying
  8. detaching
Verb
  • Over the past decade, cyberattacks against the education sector have risen expeditiously, exposing sensitive data, temporarily disrupting school operations and affecting students' learning.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Integration therefore becomes an important part of introducing upgrades without disrupting the wider mission setup.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of disrupting
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  • On Tuesday, forensic teams entered the home's basement and began dismantling a laboratory.
    — Frederick Sutton Sinclair, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Politicians have been dismantling the government agencies designed to track foreign influence, and social media companies are raising barriers to research on their platforms, leaving the country unprepared.
    — RENÉE DIRESTA, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of dismantling
Verb
  • So joining at all was breaking the rules and keeping a secret.
    — Richard Hall, Time, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The punch-worthy parody of Altman’s characterization ramps up once he’s motivated to push back against — or trample over — the safety guardrails that Ilya prizes above all else, but so does the depth of his world-breaking cynicism.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of breaking
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  • Everyday routines depend on maps, banking, tickets, transit, rideshare and messaging, and completely disconnecting remains impractical for most people.
    — Ashley Lynch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The sole survivor disables HAL by disconnecting the power source.
    — Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of disconnecting
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  • Apart from the group’s buy-in to doing the little things, its commitment to unselfish football keeps one of the most dynamic running games in the country from fracturing.
    — Connor Dullinger, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
  • But after an initial surge in interest in Turning Point, with new chapters popping up at high schools and colleges across the country, the future of the organization in a fracturing MAGA movement now seems less certain one year later.
    — Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of fracturing
Verb
  • To help textile mills assess the impact of their headers, Fabscrap also developed a Smart Swatch Scorecard, which assigns header designs a grade, based on the number of components and the relative ease of disassembling them.
    — Bella Webb, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Workers are in the midst of disassembling the old plant, a process that is expected to be completed next year.
    — John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of disassembling
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  • Sign up for the newsletter When the rain does fall, Kabul’s hard, impermeable surfaces mean the water doesn’t replenish aquifers, but instead sweeps through the city as flash floods, destroying homes, killing people and rolling away.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Space debris is generated not only by kinetic space weapons but also when satellites collide and get smashed into countless fragments and smaller particles that travel at high velocity and are capable of destroying or damaging more spacecraft.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of destroying
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  • There have been four reports of eyes detaching from the teething toy, but no injuries have been reported, federal officials said.
    — Julia Hawkins, Sacbee.com, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Orion and the Artemis III crew will stay docked with Starship for about a day before detaching to begin preparations for their return to Earth.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of detaching

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“Dismembering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dismembering. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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