disarticulate
English
Etymology
From dis- + articulate.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪsɑː(ɹ)ˈtɪkjəleɪt/
- Rhymes: -ɪkjʊleɪt
Verb
disarticulate (third-person singular simple present disarticulates, present participle disarticulating, simple past and past participle disarticulated)
- (transitive) To disjoint.
- 2002, Eric Anderson, The Man Who Cried Orange, page 239:
- I waited and he came to the point: he wanted me simply to talk to a patient he had inherited, a sports parachutist who had Roman Candled into a tree and broken and disarticulated his back.
- (transitive) To amputate (a limb) at a joint without cutting the bone.
Derived terms
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Translations
to disjoint
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