Disembowel

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  • transitive verb. To remove the entrails from.
  • transitive verb. To deprive of meaning or substance.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To deprive of the bowels, or of parts analogous to the bowels; eviscerate: as, to disembowel a carcass; to disembowel a book by tearing out leaves.
  • To wound in the abdomen in such a manner as to permit the bowels to protrude or escape, as in suicide by hara-kiri.
  • To take or draw from the bowels, as the web of a spider.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
  • transitive verb. To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
  • verb. To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. remove the entrails of
  • Word Usage
    "I learned the word "disembowel" at age 5 because of him."
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    remove  take  take away  withdraw  
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