dismemberment

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of dismembering. countable
    — The skill is shown by the neat way in which the dismemberment has been carried out. The parts have not been rudely hacked asunder, but have been separated at the joints.
  2. The state or condition of being dismembered. uncountable
    — [I]s not the fair fabric of Society itself, with all its royal mantles and pontifical stoles, whereby, from nakedness and dismemberment, we are organised into Polities, into nations, and a whole coöperating Mankind, the creation, as has here been often irrefragably evinced, of the Tailor alone?
  3. Removal from membership; detachment from an organization, group, etc. countable
    — 1867, "Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Ex Parte Magruder," The American Law Register (1852-1891), vol. 15, no. 5, New Series Volume 6, (Mar.), p. 295, The decision of the Supreme Court involved a dismemberment from the bar.

词形变化

dismemberments plural

词汇关系

衍生词
nondismemberment rememberment
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词源

Etymology tree
English dismember
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English dismemberment
From dismember + -ment.
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