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1
to cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forcibly
- quickly dismembered the old toolshed and hauled it off to the dump
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- doctor,
- fix,
- heal,
- mend,
- patch,
- rebuild,
- recondition,
- reconstruct,
- renovate,
- repair
2
to take apart
- dismembered the stage settings after the last performance
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“Dismember.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dismember. Accessed 30 Jun. 2022.
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