disembowel
verb (used with object)
to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
disemboweling
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present participleof disembowel.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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I know I wasn't supposed to, but the second time I watched the emotionally disemboweling prestige weeper "Dear Edward," the Apple TV+ adaptation of Ann Napolitano's best-selling 2020 novel, I thought of Prince Harry.
From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2023
“But elephants are also living tanks, capable of killing, disemboweling, knocking down houses, and eating a farmer’s entire crop for the season. Human-elephant conflict can go both ways.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2022
As usual, Signor Mussolini managed in his discourse to turn several familiar ideas inside out, disemboweling them with hearty, ogrish gust.
From Time Magazine Archive
The grim allegory, showing a U.S. soldier disemboweling a Japanese Frankenstein monster behind which looms an equally monstrous Nazi ogre, is the largest of seven pictures just completed by Artist Thomas Hart Benton.
From Time Magazine Archive
Strange, but it felt normal to be disemboweling fish together.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
