desmembrar

v.

1 to dismember (trocear) (cuerpo).

2 to break up.

3 to dismantle.

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desmembrar

Conjugation model [ZURCIR], like {{link=zurcir}}zurcir

► verbo transitivo

1 to dismember

2 figurado to split up, break up, divide

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1. VT

1) [+ cadáver, país] to dismember

2) [+ partido] to break up

2.

See:

desmembrarse

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verbo transitivo <partido> to break up; <país> to tear ... apart; <imperio> to dismember, dismantle

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= dismember.

Ex. Books can seldom be disbound for the benefit of bibliographers (although it is worth remembering that they sometimes have to be rebound, when they are completely dismembered), but we can now see through printing ink by means of betaradiography.

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verbo transitivo <partido> to break up; <país> to tear ... apart; <imperio> to dismember, dismantle

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= dismember.

Ex: Books can seldom be disbound for the benefit of bibliographers (although it is worth remembering that they sometimes have to be rebound, when they are completely dismembered), but we can now see through printing ink by means of betaradiography.

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desmembrar [A5 ]

vt

‹partido› to break up; ‹país/cadáver› to tear … apart, dismember; ‹imperio› to dismember, dismantle

■ desmembrarse

v pron

«partido» to break up; «país/imperio» to fall apart

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desmembrar verbo transitivo to dismember, break up: las luchas internas desmembraron el país, the in-fighting split the country
'desmembrar' also found in these entries:
English:
dismember

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desmembrar

♦ vt

1. [cercenar] [cuerpo] to dismember;

[miembro, extremidad] to cut off

2. [disgregar] to break up

♦ See also the pronominal verb desmembrarse

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desmembrar

v/t dismember

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desmembrar {55} vt

1) : to dismember

2) : to break up