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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
dismember .
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Examples
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'Paranormal Activity' dismembers 'Saw' with $21. 1M
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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'Paranormal Activity' dismembers 'Saw' with $21. 1M weekend box office as "Paranormal Activity" expanded to nationwide release and took the No. 1 spot with $21.1 million.
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'Paranormal Activity' dismembers 'Saw' with $21. 1M
unknown title 2009
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I'm reminded of this after reading two columns, the first this weekend, the second Wednesday, that gently dismembers the pretensions of the economics profession Kay is an economist, by the way.
Robert Teitelman: Appreciating John Kay Robert Teitelman 2011
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Tun Yin, Revenge of TV lovers! directs me to True Tales of Conversational Vengeance in which a writer for the Simpsons verbally dismembers a TV-hating snob.
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I'm reminded of this after reading two columns, the first this weekend, the second Wednesday, that gently dismembers the pretensions of the economics profession Kay is an economist, by the way.
Robert Teitelman: Appreciating John Kay Robert Teitelman 2011
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The murderer dismembers victims with an electric loop designed to decapitate livestock, and leaves a snowman as a calling card.
That's J-O, Not S-T-I-E-G Alexandra Alter 2011
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Then he murders and dismembers her, sluicing the blood out a grate of a workshop behind his house.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: I Saw the Devil Marshall Fine 2011
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When I arrived at de Kooning's masterpiece "Excavation" 1950 and, later, at the overcrowded groupings of his viscerally erotic, signature "Women" paintings of the '50s—in which de Kooning, merging bedroom and butcher shop, dismembers and reconfigures the nude into knotted patchwork—I expected epiphanies.
Height and Depths of Expression Lance Esplund 2011
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“Or you will watch as Iblis dismembers her slowly, and that finger will be the biggest of all the pieces.”
The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010
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