Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Disembowel \Dis`em*bow"el\ (d[i^]s`[e^]m*bou"[e^]l), v. t. [See
{Embowel}.]
1. To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to
eviscerate.
Soon after their death, they are disemboweled.
--Cook.
Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep From
disemboweled earth the virgin gold. --Thomson.
2. To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider.
[R.] ``Her disemboweled web.'' --J. Philips.
Source : WordNet®
disembowel
v : remove the entrails of; "draw a chicken" [syn: {eviscerate},
{draw}]
[also: {disembowelling}, {disembowelled}]