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disembowel

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}]
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