dismemberings
Cutting bodies apart
Dismemberings are acts of cutting, tearing, or pulling the limbs from a body.
The word appears in contexts of violence, torture, or horror: The film depicted brutal dismemberings.
It can also describe figuratively breaking apart an organization or entity: the dismemberings of colonial empires after World War II.
Damaging a body severely
- severingCutting apart completely
- decapitationSevering head from body
- amputationSurgical limb removal
- butcheringProcessing animals into cuts
hacking · carnage · gore · slaughter · massacre · atrocity · brutality · maiming
Body's major appendages
- bodyPhysical structure, living thing
- torsoBody without limbs
- appendagesProjecting body parts
- jointsSkeletal connection points
tissue · flesh · bone · separation · cutting · dissection · cadaver · autopsy
Breaking into smaller pieces
- dissolutionBreaking up completely
- breakupRomantic relationship's termination
- disintegrationProcess of breaking apart
- deconstructionAnalysis exposing self-contradiction
dismantling · splitting · fracturing · partition · division · collapse · scattering · dispersal
mutilation
Damaging a body severely
- severingCutting apart completely
- decapitationSevering head from body
- amputationSurgical limb removal
butchering · hacking · carnage · gore · slaughter · massacre · atrocity · brutality · maiming · killing
limbs
Body's major appendages
- bodyPhysical structure, living thing
- torsoBody without limbs
- appendagesProjecting body parts
joints · tissue · flesh · bone · separation · cutting · dissection · cadaver · autopsy · surgical
fragmentation
Breaking into smaller pieces
- dissolutionBreaking up completely
- breakupRomantic relationship's termination
- disintegrationProcess of breaking apart
deconstruction · dismantling · splitting · fracturing · partition · division · collapse · scattering · dispersal · separation
dismemberingsreattachments
Rejoining severed parts
healings · reconstructions · restorations · reintegrations · joinings
dismemberingsassemblies
Organized group gatherings
assemblages · constructions · joinings · fusings · unions