DISMEMBERED Synonyms: 70 Similar and Opposite Words

dismembered

verb

past tense of dismember

as in disrupted

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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as in dismantled

to take apart dismembered the stage settings after the last performance

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Recent Examples of dismembered The family was told her body may never be found and police believe she may have been dismembered, according to Prato. —

Cristian Benavides, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2026 The body was decomposed and dismembered. —

City News Service, Daily News, 23 Apr. 2026 Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman has said the suspect, born David Anthony Burke, allegedly killed Rivas on April 23, 2025 and later dismembered her, leaving the remains in the car for four months, per a press release. —

Nicole Acosta, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026 Though Celeste’s cause of death has been sealed by a judge, prosecutors have said her body had been dismembered and separated into two bags. —

Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2026 The Houston singer-songwriter was first tied to Rivas’ death in September 2025, when police discovered a trash bag containing a dismembered, decomposing body in a Tesla registered under Burke’s name. —

Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 17 Apr. 2026 These are easily transportable works, but certainly not marketable in broad daylight, and they cannot be dismembered like the jewels in the Louvre. —

Chiara Pizzimenti, Vanity Fair, 31 Mar. 2026 At least 33 bodies — including children and dismembered remains stuffed in sacks — were unearthed from a mass grave in western Kenya on Thursday, raising questions about whether the corpses were secretly moved from a hospital morgue. —

Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 29 Mar. 2026 Bloch was influenced by the arrest of serial murderer Ed Gein, a handyman and sometime babysitter who lived on a farm in Wisconsin and was found to have dismembered the bodies of his victims. —

Therie Hendrey-Seabrook, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Mar. 2026

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The United Nations Development Programme reports that higher energy prices, disrupted food systems, and economic slowdowns triggered by the war could push up to thirty-two million people globally into poverty.

— Sudarsan Raghavan, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2026
Disasters threaten treatment The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration works with states to ensure that access to opioid use disorder medication isn't disrupted, Health and Human Services spokesperson Emily Hilliard said.

— Andrew Jones, NPR, 28 Apr. 2026