evisceration
Americannoun
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the act or process of removing internal organs, especially from the torso.
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an act or instance of depriving something of vital or essential parts.
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Surgery. an act or instance of removing an organ or the contents of an organ from the body.
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Described by the New York Times as a “bleakly funny evisceration of modern marriage,” the movie co-starred Karen Young, who was Noonan’s wife from 1992 to 1999.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
There were former Australia internationals remarking how impressed they were by England's bowling, and writers sharpening their knives for an evisceration of the home team.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
So the evisceration of TikTok will not necessarily destroy an artist's ability to reach audiences.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2025
This was New York Magazine’s issue of June 8, 1970, which led with Tom Wolfe’s gleeful 25,000-word evisceration of a party that had been held at Bernstein’s Park Avenue apartment that January.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
Cured of stenosis by endoscopic evisceration with sliding punch forceps.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
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