Dismember vs Disassemble - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between dismember and disassemble

is that dismember is to remove the limbs of while disassemble is to take to pieces; to reverse the process of assembly.

* dismembre (obsolete)

(en verb)

To remove the limbs of.

Death by drawing and quartering usually dismembered the condemned person.

To cut or otherwise divide something into pieces.

The killer methodically dismembered the bodies of his victims.

The American Civil War nearly dismembered the Union.

* dismemberment

To take to pieces; to reverse the process of assembly.

To perform the repair it was necessary to disassemble most of the mechanism.

(computing) To convert machine code to a human-readable, mnemonic form.