dismembered
Limbs forcibly removed
Dismembered describes a body that has had its limbs or other parts cut off or torn away.
The word applies to corpses—victims of violence, accidents, or deliberate mutilation: Police found the dismembered remains in a shallow grave.
Figuratively, dismembered can describe anything broken into pieces: the dismembered empire, a dismembered organization.
Cut off completely
- mutilatedDamaged by severing parts
- hackedGained unauthorized access
- choppedCut into pieces
- amputatedSurgically severed limb
quartered · torn apart · dissected · fragmented · butchered · limbs · torso · remains
Divided into distinct sections
- dividedSeparated into portions
- splitSeparation into parts
- broken upDivided into parts
- fragmentedBroken into pieces
balkanized · annexed · separated · dissolved · territory · empire · borders · treaty
Dispersed into solvent
- broken upDivided into parts
- restructuredRearranged fundamentally
- dividedSeparated into portions
- fragmentedBroken into pieces
split apart · disbanded · liquidated · dismantled · scattered · departments · corporation · merger
Broken into fragments
- brokenDamaged beyond function
- torn apartForcibly separated into pieces
- fragmentedBroken into pieces
- scatteredSpread irregularly about
disjointed · incoherent · fractured · disconnected · incomplete · narrative · argument · memory
severed
Cut off completely
amputated · quartered · torn apart · dissected · fragmented · butchered · limbs · torso · remains · corpse
partitioned
Divided into distinct sections
fragmented · balkanized · annexed · separated · dissolved · territory · empire · borders · treaty · sovereignty
dissolved
Dispersed into solvent
- broken upDivided into parts
- restructuredRearranged fundamentally
- dividedSeparated into portions
split apart · fragmented · disbanded · liquidated · dismantled · scattered · departments · corporation · merger · assets
shattered
Broken into fragments
- brokenDamaged beyond function
- torn apartForcibly separated into pieces
- fragmentedBroken into pieces
scattered · disjointed · incoherent · fractured · disconnected · incomplete · narrative · argument · memory · identity
- broken apartapart, asunder, broken, broken up, fragmented
- killedkilled, murdered, slain, assassinated, executed
- bonesskull, femur, tibia, skulls, humerus
- took apartdismantled, disassembled, unscrewed, unbolted, deconstructed
dismemberedintact
Not damaged or altered
whole · complete · in one piece · undamaged · unharmed
dismemberedassembled
Brought together as group
unified · joined · integrated · put together · whole