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Dismemberment

The act of dismembering, or the state of being dismembered; cutting in piece; m/tilation; division; separation.

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Mutilation 76% connected

The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part.

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Torture 76% connected

Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.

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Dismember 74% connected

To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dismember 74% connected

To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Apron noun · 78% connection

The piece that holds the cutting tool of a planer.

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Blank noun · 78% connection

A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the "double blank"; the "six blank."

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Branching noun · 78% connection

The act or state of separation into branches; division into branches; a division or branch.

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Catling noun · 78% connection

A double-edged, sharp-pointed dismembering knife.

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Chamfer noun · 78% connection

The surface formed by cutting away the arris, or angle, formed by two faces of a piece of timber, stone, etc.

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Concision noun · 78% connection

A cutting off; a division; a schism; a faction.

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Decision noun · 78% connection

Cutting off; division; detachment of a part.

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Depart noun · 78% connection

Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients.

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Departure noun · 78% connection

Division; separation; putting away.

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Dialysis noun · 78% connection

A solution of continuity; division; separation of parts.

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Dichotomy noun · 78% connection

Division into two; especially, the division of a class into two subclasses opposed to each other by contradiction, as the division of…

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Distinction noun · 78% connection

A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division.

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Divisive adjective · 78% connection

Creating, or tending to create, division, separation, or difference.

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Elison noun · 78% connection

Division; separation.

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Excavation noun · 78% connection

An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.

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Exile noun · 78% connection

Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separa…

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Fission noun · 78% connection

A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradua…

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Hook noun · 78% connection

An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.

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