Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun dismemberment

1 sense of dismemberment

Sense 1
dismemberment, taking apart -- (the removal of limbs; being cut to pieces)
       => mutilation -- (an injury that causes disfigurement or that deprives you of a limb or other important body part)
       => torture, torturing -- (the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession")