Disembowelment

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act or process of disemboweling; evisceration.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of disemboweling
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude
  • Word Usage
    "The ceremonial disembowelment, which is usually part of a more elaborate ritual and performed in front of spectators, consists of plunging a short blade, traditionally a tantō, into the abdomen and moving the blade from left to right in a slicing motion."
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