'dismember' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a verb which means to cut the body of something into parts, either literally or figuratively. It can be used both literally and figuratively in written English. Example sentence: The mob boss threatened to dismember his rival if he didn't comply to their demands.
During his brief tenure in the job, George Entwistle had already begun to dismember the bloated structure installed by John Birt, the improbable beneficiary of the Mendips camorra of William Rees-Mogg and Marmaduke Hussey (those are the truly guilty men).
In your report (Varoufakis extends Washington DC charm offensive after talks with Lagarde, 7 April), you refer to speculation among eurozone officials that a deal with Greece can only be achieved if "Tsipras agrees to dismember his own party and join up with centrist forces to form a new coalition".
That is trying to dismember a democracy, a member of the United Nations, a sovereign state on the continent of Europe, and it's not acceptable".
He held out the possibility of excluding Russia from the Belgian-based international Swift banking payments system, saying there was a logic to such a move if Moscow continued trying to "dismember" Ukraine.
To that end, they are demanding that big financial firms draw up plans that would make it easier to dismember them or start winding them down during the brief weekly hiatus in trading.That is proving tricky.
Many think it was the indictments of four Serbian generals issued by the tribunal's chief prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, that finished off the government.In Croatia, meanwhile, the Croatian Democratic Union, whose ex-leader, Franjo Tudjman, conspired with Slobodan Milosevic to dismember Bosnia, could return to power in the elections on November 23rd.
But in truth Ms Yingluck's impeachment has more to do with long-running efforts by Bangkok's royalist elites to dismember Pheu Thai and in particular to eradicate the influence of Yingluck's brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, a populist former prime minister who was deposed by the army in 2006 but who still dictates the party's policies from self-imposed exile in Dubai.
Since the people of East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia in a UN-sponsored referendum in 1999, many Indonesians have become convinced that outsiders are plotting to dismember their country.
The bigger surprise came two days earlier when ING, the biggest bank in the Netherlands, said that it would dismember itself splitting its banking and insurance businesses and selling its American online-banking arm and shrink its balance-sheet by almost half.
Hence the calls to dismember the company.In this section Should digital monopolies be broken up?
ICI had bitten off too much and soon had to dismember itself, selling assets to repay debt.
