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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The ship was leisurely chained and cabled to the old dock, and then came the disembowelling.
From Prue and I by George William Curtis
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
The customary device, where contemporaries are concerned, of disembowelling the victim's name, and leaving it a skeleton of consonants, is a formal concession which in effect concedes nothing.
From Angels & Ministers by Laurence Housman
He looked over to Nap, who fiercely battled with a sofa cushion, and was now disembowelling it through a rent in the cover.
From Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson
