Standard Lemma guide

disembowel

verb · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: [dɪsɪmˈbaʊ(ə)ɫ]
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -aʊəl
  • rhymes with -aʊl

1

verb

Meaning 1

To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

verb

Meaning 2

To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

verb

Meaning 3

remove the entrails of

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • draw a chicken

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: eviscerate, draw

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: remove, take, take away, withdraw

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh1 Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des-bor. ▲ Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- English embowel English disembowel From dis- + embowel.

Across languages

Translations

47 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: изкормям (izkormjam) — to take or let out the bowels
  • Bulgarian: изкормвам (izkormvam) — to take or let out the bowels
  • Bulgarian: изкормя (izkormja) — to take or let out the bowels
  • Bulgarian: изтърбушвам (iztǎrbušvam) — to take or let out the bowels
  • Bulgarian: изтърбуша (iztǎrbuša) — to take or let out the bowels
  • Dutch: ontdarmen — to take or let out the bowels
  • Dutch: ontweiden — to take or let out the bowels
  • Finnish: suolistaa — to take or let out the bowels
  • Finnish: poistaa sisälmykset — to take or let out the bowels
  • French: éventrer — to take or let out the bowels
  • French: éviscérer — to take or let out the bowels
  • French: étriper — to take or let out the bowels
  • Galician: destripar — to take or let out the bowels
  • Galician: estripar — to take or let out the bowels
  • Galician: eviscerar — to take or let out the bowels
  • German: ausweiden — to take or let out the bowels
  • German: ausnehmen — to take or let out the bowels
  • Hungarian: kizsigerel — to take or let out the bowels
  • Hungarian: kibelez — to take or let out the bowels
  • Icelandic: aflima — to take or let out the bowels
  • Italian: sviscerare — to take or let out the bowels
  • Italian: sbudellare — to take or let out the bowels
  • Italian: sventrare — to take or let out the bowels
  • Italian: spanciare — to take or let out the bowels
  • Latin: ēviscerō — to take or let out the bowels
  • Latin: exenterō — to take or let out the bowels
  • Ligurian: desbêlâ — to take or let out the bowels
  • Lithuanian: išdarinėti — to take or let out the bowels
  • Māori: tuaki — to take or let out the bowels
  • Māori: hāparangi — to take or let out the bowels
  • Norwegian: ta ut innvollene av — to take or let out the bowels
  • Norwegian: sløya — to take or let out the bowels
  • Portuguese: desentranhar — to take or let out the bowels
  • Portuguese: estripar — to take or let out the bowels
  • Russian: вы́потрошить (výpotrošitʹ) — to take or let out the bowels
  • Russian: потроши́ть (potrošítʹ) — to take or let out the bowels
  • Russian: распотроши́ть (raspotrošítʹ) — to take or let out the bowels
  • Russian: вынима́ть вну́тренности (vynimátʹ vnútrennosti) — to take or let out the bowels
  • Serbo-Croatian: rastranširati — to take or let out the bowels
  • Serbo-Croatian: izvaditi utrobu — to take or let out the bowels
  • Spanish: destripar — to take or let out the bowels
  • Spanish: eviscerar — to take or let out the bowels
  • Spanish: desentrañar — to take or let out the bowels
  • Swedish: ta inälvorna ur — to take or let out the bowels
  • Finnish: erittää — to take or draw from the body
  • Italian: secernere — to take or draw from the body
  • Serbo-Croatian: istranširati — to take or draw from the body