dislimbed
Lost one's appendages
Dislimbed means having had limbs removed or torn off.
The word appears in literary or dramatic contexts describing violence or dismemberment: The battlefield was strewn with dislimbed corpses.
It functions as the past participle of the rare verb dislimb, to remove limbs from a body.
Had limbs cut off
- severedCut off completely
- mutilatedDamaged by severing parts
- maimedPermanently injured or disfigured
- amputatedSurgically severed limb
butchered · hacked · torn · mangled · chopped · cleaved · cut · slashed
Cut away excess growth
- loppedCut branches off
- trimmedCut to neaten
- toppedExceeded or crowned
- pollardedCut to promote branching
defoliated · stripped · bare · branches · limbs · stumps · sawn · felled
dismembered
Had limbs cut off
amputated · butchered · hacked · torn · mangled · chopped · cleaved · cut · slashed · wounded
pruned
Cut away excess growth
pollarded · defoliated · stripped · bare · branches · limbs · stumps · sawn · felled · logged
dismemberment
Removal of limbs
grotesque · visceral · Shakespearean · medieval · torture · execution · punishment · drawn · quartered · gibbet