disembowel
verb (used with object)
to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
disembowelled
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past participleof disembowel.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof disembowel.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
disembowelverb (used with object)to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
Example Sentences
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As Lebanon marks the 47th anniversary of the start of the war on Wednesday, Ghassan's daughter and other relatives of those killed in the blast are fighting government plans to demolish the disembowelled silos.
From Reuters ● Apr. 13, 2022
Hill sides were strewn with debris and dotted by houses disembowelled by the storms powerful winds.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2017
It is disembowelled without the hide being taken off, and, since there can be no hide, there can be no quarry.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
He did not notice that he was now in the neighbourhood of the dangerous mill-pond, and went, after he had disembowelled the stag, to the water, in order to wash his blood-stained hands.
From Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Margaret Hunt
Sometimes, when the animal was slain, they disembowelled it, took out the spleen, and, holding it in their hands, offered their prayers.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Sir James George Frazer
