verb
Meaning 1
To disembowel; to remove the viscera.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To disembowel; to remove the viscera.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To elicit the essence of.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To remove a bodily organ or its contents.
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Usage: transitive
Topics: medicine, sciences, surgery
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verb
To protrude through a surgical incision.
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Usage: intransitive
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adjective satellite
having been disembowelled
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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verb
take away a vital or essential part of
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Broader terms: devitalize, devitalise
verb
remove the entrails of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: disembowel, draw
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Broader terms: remove, take, take away, withdraw
verb
remove the contents of
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Broader terms: empty
verb
surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: resect
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Broader terms: remove, take, take away, withdraw
History
From Latin ēviscerātus, past participle of ēviscerāre (“to disembowel”), from e- (“out”) + viscera (“bowels”), equivalent to e- (“out”) + viscera + -ate.
Across languages
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.