entrails
Americanplural noun
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the internal parts of the trunk of an animal body.
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the intestines.
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the internal parts of anything.
the entrails of a machine.
plural noun
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the internal organs of a person or animal; intestines; guts
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the innermost parts of anything
Etymology
Origin of entrails
1250–1300; Middle English entrailles < Anglo-French, Middle French < Vulgar Latin *interālia (compare early Medieval Latin intrālia ), alteration, by suffix change ( -al 1 ), of Latin interānea guts, neuter plural of interāneus; see inter-, -an, -eous
Example Sentences
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Then, in the Zaporizhzhia region, workshops where enemy devices were dismantled, their entrails methodically examined, their secrets extracted piece by piece.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
“A Big Bold Beautiful Journey” is sticky sweet and sludgy and so cloyingly aesthetic that the roadkill bleeds ropes of twee entrails.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025
We can sit around reading entrails from the court’s scheduling order in the immunity appeal to attempt to parse that breakdown and to hurl our efforts at changing those numbers through hope and limited influence.
From Slate • Mar. 4, 2024
The entrails of a nearby building were on show.
From BBC • Sep. 17, 2023
“They are getting hungrier and hungrier. Nobody kills chickens these days, and so there are less entrails for them to eat.”
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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