bowel

[ bou-uhl, boul ]

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noun

Anatomy.
- Usually bowels. the intestine.
- a part of the intestine.
bowels,
- the inward or interior parts: the bowels of the earth.
- Archaic. feelings of pity or compassion.

verb (used with object),bow·eled, bow·el·ing or (especially British) bow·elled, bow·el·ling.

to disembowel.

Origin of bowel

1250–1300; Middle English b(o)uel<Old French <Latin botellus little sausage (bot(ulus) sausage + -ellus-elle)

Other words from bowel

bow·el·less, adjective

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How to use bowel in a sentence

He breathed fierce and honest anathema on the heads of the bowelless fiends who had abandoned the babe to its doom.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. Locke
But this is not thy doing: the bowelless fiend sends thee, poor simple girl, to me with this bait.
The Cloister and the Hearth | Charles Reade

British Dictionary definitions for bowel

bowel

/ (ˈbaʊəl) /

noun

an intestine, esp the large intestine in man
(plural) innards; entrails

(plural) the deep or innermost part (esp in the phrase the bowels of the earth)
(plural) archaic the emotions, esp of pity or sympathy

Origin of bowel

C13: from Old French bouel, from Latin botellus a little sausage, from botulus sausage

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Scientific definitions for bowel

bowel

[ bou′əl ]

The intestine.

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