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dismember
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dis·mem·ber (ds-mmbr)
v.
To amputate a limb or a part of a limb.
dis·member·ment n.
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He keeps blood samples of the victims he dismembers on glass slides.
`DEXTER'S' PERVERSE WORLD by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
The novelist looks at the world through a creative screen, even through a kind of magical kaleidoscope that dismembers, deforms, and recomposes a reality rendered iridescent by his or her vision: a genuine chemistry takes place in which the substance of observed, lived, or imagined reality becomes, through a kind of poetic transubstantiation, a new substance, one which is unlike any other: the novelistic substance itself.
Teaching the novel and short fiction by Kamm, Lew / Academic Exchange Quarterly
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