| Main Entry: | dismember |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut into pieces |
Synonyms: |
amputate, anatomize, cripple, disassemble, disjoint, dislimb, dislocate, dismantle, dismount, dissect, divide, maim, mutilate, part, rend, sever, sunder, take down |
Antonyms: |
join |
| Main Entry: | amputate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remove a limb |
Synonyms: |
cut away, cut off, dismember, eliminate, excise, lop, separate, sever, truncate |
| Main Entry: | cripple |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disable; make lame |
Synonyms: |
attenuate, blunt, debilitate, disarm, dislimb, dismember, enfeeble, hamstring, hurt, immobilize, incapacitate, injure, lame, maim, mangle, mutilate, palsy, paralyze, prostrate, sap, sideline, stifle, undermine, unstrengthen, weaken |
Antonyms: |
aid, assist, enable, help, strengthen, support |
| Main Entry: | dismantle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take apart |
Synonyms: |
annihilate, bankrupt, bare, break down, break up, decimate, demolish, denudate, denude, deprive, destroy, disassemble, dismember, dismount, disrobe, divest, fell, knock down, level, part out, pull down, raze, ruin, strike, strip, subvert, take down, take to pieces, tear down, undo, unrig, wrack, wreck |
Antonyms: |
assemble, build, combine, construct, put together, raise |
| Main Entry: | dissect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut up; take apart |
Synonyms: |
anatomize, break up, cut, dichotomize, disjoin, disjoint, dislimb, dismember, dissever, divide, exscind, exsect, lay open, operate, part, prosect, quarter, section, sever, slice, sunder |
Antonyms: |
connect, join, mend, sew |
| Main Entry: | divide |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | separate, disconnect |
Synonyms: |
abscind, bisect, branch, break, break down, carve, chop, cleave, cross, cut, cut up, demarcate, detach, dichotomize, disengage, disentangle, disjoin, dislocate, dismember, dissect, dissever, dissociate, dissolve, disunite, divorce, halve, intersect, isolate, loose, part, partition, pull away, quarter, rend, rupture, section, segment, segregate, sever, shear, split, subdivide, sunder, tear, unbind, undo |
Antonyms: |
append, attach, collect, combine, connect, couple, gather, join, link, unite |
| Main Entry: | maim |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cripple, put out of action |
Synonyms: |
batter, blemish, break, castrate, crush, damage, deface, disable, disfigure, dismember, disqualify, gimp, hack, hamstring, harm, hog-tie, hurt, impair, incapacitate, injure, lame, mangle, mar, massacre, maul, mayhem, mutilate, spoil, truncate, warp, wound |
Antonyms: |
aid, cure, heal, help, repair |
| Main Entry: | mutilate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | maim, damage |
Synonyms: |
adulterate, amputate, batter, bowdlerize, butcher, cripple, crush, cut to pieces, cut up, deface, disable, disfigure, dismember, distort, expurgate, hack*, hash up, hurt, injure, lacerate, lame, mangle, mar, mess up*, ravage, scratch, spoil, weaken |
Antonyms: |
fix, mend, repair |
| Main Entry: | quarter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | divide into four equal parts |
Synonyms: |
cleave, cut, cut up, dismember, fourth |
| Main Entry: | disjoint |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | separate at joint |
Synonyms: |
disarrange, disarticulate, dislocate, dismember, luxate |