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Word Meanings - DISMEMBER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up. Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. Pope. A society lacerated and dismembered. Gladstone. By whose hands the blow should be struck
Additional info about word: DISMEMBER
1. To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up. Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. Pope. A society lacerated and dismembered. Gladstone. By whose hands the blow should be struck which would dismember that once mighty empire. Buckle. 2. To deprive of membership. They were dismembered by vote of the house. R. North. Syn. -- To disjoint; dislocate; dilacerate; mutilate; divide; sever.
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- SPLIT INFINITIVE
A simple infinitive with to, having a modifier between the verb and the to; as in, to largely decrease. Called also cleft infinitive. - BREAKMAN
See BRAKEMAN - DERANGER
One who deranges. - DERANGEMENT
The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity; - BREAKABLE
Capable of being broken. - SHIVER-SPAR
A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar. - DERANGED
Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb. - SPLITFEET
The Fissipedia. - SHATTER-BRAINED; SHATTER-PATED
Disordered or wandering in intellect; hence, heedless; wild. J. Goodman. - DISRUPTIVE
Causing, or tending to cause, disruption; caused by disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery. Nichol. - SPLIT SWITCH
= Point switch. - SHATTER
cf. D. schateren to crack, to make a great noise, OD. schetteren to 1. To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters - SPLIT-TAIL
A california market fish belonging to the Carp family. The pintail duck. - DISMEMBER
1. To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up. Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. Pope. A society lacerated and dismembered. Gladstone. By whose hands the blow should be struck - SPLIT SHOT; SPLIT STROKE
In croquet, etc., a shot or stroke in which one drives in different directions one's own and the opponent's ball placed in contact. - DISSIPATED
1. Squandered; scattered. "Dissipated wealth." Johnson. 2. Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate. A life irregular and dissipated. Johnson. - SPLIT DYNAMOMETER
An electric dynamometer having two coils so arranged that one carries the primary current, and the other the secondary current, of a transformer. - BREAKAWAY
A wild rush of sheep, cattle, horses, or camels (especially at the smell or the sight of water); a stampede. 2. An animal that breaks away from a herd. - SPLIT WHEEL
= Split pulley. - SHATTERY
Easily breaking into pieces; not compact; loose of texture; brittle; as, shattery spar. - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - LAWBREAKER
One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a. - DISSHIVER
To shiver or break in pieces. - OATHBREAKING
The violation of an oath; perjury. Shak - PEACEBREAKER
One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n. - UPBREAK
To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface. - PERBREAK
See PARBREAK - OUTBREAK
A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection. "Mobs and outbreaks." J. H. Newman. The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind. Shak.