disembowel
[dis-em-bou-uh l]
- to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
- to cut or slash open the abdomen of, as by bayoneting, so as to expose or remove the viscera.
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Origin of disembowel
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Examples from the Web for disemboweled
Contemporary Examples
Serafin posted numerous identifiable photos of himself on Facebook, as well as pictures of a disemboweled informer.
Grand gets to be disappointed without being disparaged, disowned, or disemboweled.
Pity the foolish Russian assassin who swallowed critical evidence; he was beaten, blow-torched and disemboweled.
Historical Examples
The trackside was strewn with disemboweled whitewood barrels.
The Law-BreakersRidgwell Cullum
Masters disemboweled their slaves, to search for prognostications in their entrails.
The Brass BellEugne Sue
He clipped them, beheaded them, disemboweled them and warped them all out of shape.
At Good Old SiwashGeorge Fitch
The dog was thus roasted whole, for he had not been disemboweled.
Ten years in the ranks, U.S. armyAugustus Meyers
Lake cornered them a few minutes later and, without touching his blaster, disemboweled them with their own knives.
Space PrisonTom Godwin
disembowel
- (tr) to remove the entrails of
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Word Origin and History for disemboweled
disembowel
v.
c.1600, from dis- + embowel. Earlier form was disbowel (mid-15c.); embowel, with the same meaning, is attested from 1520s. Related: Disemboweled; disembowelment.
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