piecemeal
/ˈpiːs.miːl/ verb C2- To divide or distribute piecemeal; dismember.
He/she/it piecemeals · Past piecemealed · Past participle piecemealed · -ing form piecemealing
Verb forms
- Base form
- piecemeal
- He/she/it
- piecemeals
- Past
- piecemealed
- Past participle
- piecemealed
- -ing form
- piecemealing
From the library
“Tell me,” cried Danglars, in a tone whose bitterness Harpagon alone has been capable of revealing—“tell me that you wish to despoil me of all; it will be sooner over than devouring me piecemeal.”
He astutely recognized that a piecemeal approach would merely delay the inevitable disaster.
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