delimb

English

Etymology

de- +‎ limb

Verb

delimb (third-person singular simple present delimbs, present participle delimbing, simple past and past participle delimbed)

1. (transitive) To cut the limbs from.
   • 2008 June 18, Jim Dwyer, “Bronze Eagles Owe Survival to Drug Dealer”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Statues are decapitated and delimbed, hacksawed into pieces that can be carried off and sold for their weight, not their grace.

Translations

to cut the limbs from

• Finnish: katkaista raajat (literally); karsia (fi), oksia (fi) (trees)

Anagrams

• Lib Dem, dimble, limbed