disembowel
verb (used with object)
to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
disembowelling
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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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She was sitting there, pretending that she didn't know that she was very, very slowly and deliberately jerking out the very vitals of that pattern, in fact disembowelling it.
From The New Warden by Mrs. David G. Ritchie
The filial hero varies this a little, when "disembowelling" the Algerine commander, by requesting the Deity to "have pity on" his parent—a proceeding faintly suggestive of a survival in his mind of the human-sacrifice period.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury
On either hand, at every hundred yards, instead of the houseless, disembowelling paepaes of Nuka-hiva, populous houses turned out their inhabitants to cry “Kaoha!” to the passers-by.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
The ship was leisurely chained and cabled to the old dock, and then came the disembowelling.
From Prue and I by George William Curtis
Here were beings created in the likeness of their Maker, whose criterion of superiority over other animals was in these symbols and not in that of tooth, claw, or talon, disembowelling their fellow creatures.
From The Last Shot by Frederick Palmer
