Definition of "dismembered" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of dismember. (verb)

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• "Sir Richard taking the advantage of his minority, put the finishing hand to a peace with Spain, which was sufficiently tired and weakened with a 25 years war, for the recovery of Portugal, which had been dismembered from the Spanish crown in 1640; the treaty of peace was signed at Madrid December 6, 1665."
• "When Britain was thus dismembered from the empire, its importance was sensibly felt, and its loss sincerely lamented."
• "Singara, and the castle of the Moors, one of the strongest places of Mesopotamia, were likewise dismembered from the empire."