cut off the limbs of (a person or animal) 肢解 [as adj. dismembered]he buried their dismembered bodies in the back garden. 他将他们被肢解后的尸体埋在后花园。 ■partition or divide up (a territory or organization) 分割;瓜分 the major European states thought Russia intended to dismember the Ottoman Empire. 主要的欧洲国家都认为沙俄想瓜分奥斯曼帝国。
派生 dismemberment noun 语源
Middle English: from Old French desmembrer, based on Latin dis- 'apart' + membrum 'limb'