embowel
Americanverb (used with object)
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to disembowel.
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Obsolete. to enclose.
verb
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to bury or embed deeply
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another word for disembowel
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So much pipe has been emboweled about the petrochemical suburbs of Houston that the area is called "the Spaghetti Bowl."
From Time Magazine Archive
In due time and with all possible secrecy, they visited the region where this great mine was said to be emboweled in the earth.
From Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet With a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians by Benjamin Drake
When the body was drawn, i.e. embowelled, and the heart thrown into the fire, she exclaimed, "James Dawson!" and expired.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
I have caused it to be embowelled, and deposited in a vault, till I have orders from England.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 by Samuel Richardson
The earth entombs emblems of greatness, of riches, and of man's vain-glorious possessions; buildings have been reared by successive generations on mounds which embowelled the ruined mansions of predecessors.
From Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society by William Crooke
The caves were all embowelled in the Surreyside formation; the soil was all betrodden by the light pump of T. P. Cooke.
From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Ernest Rhys
The graves were all embowelled in the Surrey-side formation; the soil was all betrodden by the light pump of T. P. Cooke.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Robert Louis Stevenson
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