eviscerate

[verb ih-vis-uh-reyt; adjective ih-vis-er-it, -uh-reyt]

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verb (used with object), e·vis·cer·at·ed, e·vis·cer·at·ing.

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

1600–10; < Latin ēviscerātus, past participle of ēviscerāre to deprive of entrails, tear to pieces, equivalent to ē- e-¹ + viscer(a) viscera + -ātus -ate¹

Related formse·vis·cer·a·tion, noune·vis·cer·a·tor, nounun·e·vis·cer·at·ed, adjective

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Related Words for eviscerated

gut, weaken, devitalize

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Contemporary Examples of eviscerated

This theme was touched upon in “Paradise Now” and is eviscerated in “Omar.”
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Bob Schieffer eviscerated Cain on Face the Nation over the use a cigarette in his campaign ad gone viral.
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That day she, very authentically, eviscerated Jay Leno over the Tonight Show debacle at NBC in front of a roomful of press.
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Historical Examples of eviscerated

Everything had been eviscerated, torn to atoms, reduced to powder.
The Day of Wrath
Maurus Jkai
The whole of the surrounding country is, as it were, eviscerated.
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Morley Roberts
He sat looking at the minute-hand of the eviscerated Mission clock.
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It is eviscerated and swallowed as greedily as though it were a defenceless grub.
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Thus in the case of a wound which is obviously septic and going to terminate in panophthalmitis the eye should be eviscerated.
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British Dictionary definitions for eviscerated

eviscerate

verb

(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

adjective

having been disembowelled

Derived Formsevisceration, nouneviscerator, noun

Word Origin for eviscerate

C17: from Latin ēviscerāre to disembowel, from viscera entrails

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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.