dismembered

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Dismembered traffic lights blink bleakly up a staircase strewn with yesterday's newspapers and the hulk of an abandoned car.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dismembered butterfly wings strewed the grassy jungle, among which were a fair sprinkling from that black and white halo already noted.

From My Studio Neighbors by Gibson, William Hamilton

Dismembered Poland excites our sympathy; but Poland was as eager to share in the partition of other States as she was reluctant to submit to that operation herself.

From The Empire of Russia by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)