Dismembered is often used literally in news reports or in fictional accounts of gruesome crimes. When it’s used figuratively, it’s almost always in a negative way to imply that what has been done was very crude.

For the last damn time: "Frankincense" is the name of the DOCTOR, not the scent he created from the gaseous discharge of dismembered corpses.

— Glen Weldon (@ghweldon) December 25, 2019

In Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005) when Obi-Wan dismembered Anakin we see his eyes permanently turn yellow as a sign of him fully being corrupted by the Dark Side. Prior to this his eyes changed eye colour off-screen from one scene to another depending on the situation. pic.twitter.com/xEZDopBPi9

— Movie Details (@moviedetail) December 16, 2019

Looking back, Magic story in 2018/2019 has followed the same course as organized play: Wizards dismembered a functioning (albeit imperfect) system in favor of flashy-but-vague replacements (comics! novels! Netflix!) which have either yet to materialize or turned out to be DOA.

— OrcishLibrarian (@BibliovoreOrc) December 23, 2019

Did you mean dismember?