evisceration

American  

[ee-vis-uh-ray-shuhn] / i vɪs əˈreɪ ʃən /

noun

1. the act or process of removing internal organs, especially from the torso.

2. an act or instance of depriving something of vital or essential parts.

3. Surgery. an act or instance of removing an organ or the contents of an organ from the body.

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Example Sentences

Three months on from an evisceration at the hands of the Springbok scrum, a patched-up Irish pack will be tasked with keeping the Parisian crowd quiet.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026

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

As a gorgeously conceptual art-horror object, “El Conde” frequently mesmerizes; as a proper evisceration of its subject, it can’t help but feel curiously defanged.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2023

Some late announcements on the part of those who advocate the evisceration of the English language and literature are of a kind to call for some reply.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various