embowel

American  

[em-bou-uhl, -boul] / ɛmˈbaʊ əl, -ˈbaʊl /

verb (used with object)

emboweled, emboweling, embowelled, embowelling

1. to disembowel.

2. Obsolete. to enclose.

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embowel British  

/ ɪmˈbaʊəl /

verb

1. to bury or embed deeply

2. another word for disembowel

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Other Word Forms

• unemboweled adjective
• unembowelled adjective

Etymology

Origin of embowel

First recorded in 1515–25; em- ¹ + bowel

Example Sentences

Embowel, em-bow′el, v.t. properly, to enclose in something else; but also used for disembowel, to remove the entrails from:—pr.p. embow′elling; pa.p. embow′elled.—n.

From Project Gutenberg

To such a pitch have people already brought matters, that they can't look at anything as what it is, but search out some great big generality to which they may tie it and slay it and embowel it.

From Project Gutenberg

No wheels by piecemeal brought the pile; No barks embowel'd Portland Isle; Dig, cried experience, dig away, Bring the firm quarry into day, The excavation still shall save Those ramparts which its entrails gave.

From Project Gutenberg

Sacred to thee and all the fiends of death; Then in thy hall, with spoils of nations crown'd, Confine thy walks beneath the rending ground; No more on earth the embowel'd flames to pour, And scourge my people and my race no more.

From Project Gutenberg

Embowell'd! if thou embowel me to-day, I'll give you leave to powder me and eat me too to-morrow.

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