disarticulate
verb
dis·ar·tic·u·late
ˌdis-är-ˈti-kyə-ˌlāt 
disarticulated; disarticulating; disarticulates
: to become disjointed
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Only two sets of human remains were uncovered at the burial site (though Linares also wrote that other disarticulated human bones were found throughout the refuse).
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Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 30 May 2017
Dependency theorists have often used the words distorted or disarticulated or deformed to describe dependent economies.
—Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2012
Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 30 May 2017
Dependency theorists have often used the words distorted or disarticulated or deformed to describe dependent economies.
—Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2012
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First Known Use
1808, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 2
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