gut
noun
the alimentary canal, especially between the pylorus and the anus, or some portion of it.
was gutting
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past progressiveof gut.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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President Nixon admitted, in effect, that he was gutting the international monetary system by cutting loose the dollar from the gold-price peg, the Journal wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
It closed a few years ago, which was gutting to me because I used to eat there two or three times a week.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025
So the notion that the main news source for my hometown might be destroyed was gutting.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2021
"But eliminating me from that process and me not being there meant I couldn't do that. It was gutting."
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2020
Quoth she, "This I found within the belly of the fish as I was gutting it."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
