verb (v)

• separate the limbs from the body(verb.contact)

  Example:
  The tiger dismembered the tourist.
  

  source: wordnet30
• divide into pieces(verb.contact)

  Example:
  Our department was dismembered when our funding dried up.
  

  Synonym:
  discerp, take apart
  

  source: wordnet30
• To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up.(verb)

  source: webster1913