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
1Other words from eviscerate
- e·vis·cer·a·tion [ih-vis-uh-rey-shuhn], /ɪˌvɪs əˈreɪ ʃən/, noun
- e·vis·cer·a·tor, noun
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How to use eviscerate in a sentence
His evisceration of the hypocrisy and cynicism of Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroeder was irresistible.
Christopher Hitchens: A Young Contrarian Salutes Him | Max McGuinness | December 18, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTThey should fight harder, because “the evisceration of USAID,” as one development expert calls it, has serious consequences.
His evisceration of Leno on The Jay Leno Show is one for the vault.
After his 2007 evisceration of Flavor Flav, he may have taken some heat for making racial jokes.
Their campaign for "change" can only benefit from Brown's self- evisceration.
It usually makes its appearance about the third day and must be treated by evisceration.
If the globe be extruded the patient is in the same position as if he had had evisceration performed.
One only stretches himself out inviting evisceration in the effort.
Hunting with the Bow and Arrow | Saxton PopeA tiny perforation of no importance to the insect is more effectual than evisceration.
Social Life in the Insect World | J. H. FabreAn instantaneous side-step and twist of the body saved the captain from evisceration.
The Pathless Trail | Arthur O. (Arthur Olney) Friel
British Dictionary definitions for eviscerate
/ (ɪˈvɪsəˌreɪt) /
(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
Origin of eviscerate
1Derived forms of eviscerate
- evisceration, noun
- eviscerator, noun
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