eviscerate
- to remove the entrails from; disembowel: to eviscerate a chicken.
- to deprive of vital or essential parts: The censors eviscerated the book to make it inoffensive to the leaders of the party.
- Surgery. to remove the contents of (a body organ).
Origin of eviscerate
Examples from the Web for eviscerated
Contemporary Examples of eviscerated
This theme was touched upon in “Paradise Now” and is eviscerated in “Omar.”
Bob Schieffer eviscerated Cain on Face the Nation over the use a cigarette in his campaign ad gone viral.
That day she, very authentically, eviscerated Jay Leno over the Tonight Show debacle at NBC in front of a roomful of press.
People are afraid to try things because they get eviscerated, like Jeff Zucker did at NBC.
Historical Examples of eviscerated
Everything had been eviscerated, torn to atoms, reduced to powder.
The Day of WrathMaurus Jkai
The whole of the surrounding country is, as it were, eviscerated.
A Tramp's NotebookMorley Roberts
He sat looking at the minute-hand of the eviscerated Mission clock.
A Collection of Stories, Reviews and EssaysWilla Cather
It is eviscerated and swallowed as greedily as though it were a defenceless grub.
Social Life in the Insect WorldJ. H. Fabre
Thus in the case of a wound which is obviously septic and going to terminate in panophthalmitis the eye should be eviscerated.
eviscerate
- (tr) to remove the internal organs of; disembowel
- (tr) to deprive of meaning or significance
- (tr) surgery to remove the contents of (the eyeball or other organ)
- (intr) surgery (of the viscera) to protrude through a weakened abdominal incision after an operation
- having been disembowelled
Word Origin for eviscerate
Word Origin and History for eviscerated
eviscerate
c.1600 (figurative); 1620s (literal), from Latin evisceratus, past participle of eviscerare "to disembowel," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + viscera "internal organs." Sometimes used 17c. in figurative sense of "to bring out the deepest secrets of." Related: Eviscerated; eviscerating.