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DISEMBOWEL v. 2 definitions
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.
DISEMBOWELMENT n.
The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration.
BOWEL v.
To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.
DISBOWEL v.
To disembowel. [R.] Spenser.
DISENTRAIL v.
To disembowel; to let out or draw forth, as the entrails. [Obs.] As if he thought her soul to disentrail. Spenser.
EMBOWEL v.
To disembowel. The barbarous practice of emboweling. Hallam. The boar . . . makes his trough In your emboweled bosoms. Shak.
EMBOWELMENT n.
Disembowelment.
EVENTERATE v.
To rip open; todisembowel. [Obs.] Sir. T. Brown.
EVENTRATION n.
The act af disemboweling.
EVISCERATE v.
To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.
EVISCERATION a.
A disemboweling.
EXENTERATE v.
To take out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate; as, exenterated fishes. [R.] Exenterated rule-mongers and eviscerated logicians. Hare.
HARA-KIRI n.
practiced in Japan, and commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced officials; disembowelment; -- also written, but incorrectly, hari-kari. W. E. Griffis.
HULK v.
To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; as, to hulk a hare. [R.] Beau. & Fl.
PAUNCH v.
To pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to disembowel. Shak.
UNBOWEL v.
To deprive of the entrails; to disembowel. Dr. H. More.
VISCERATE v.
To deprive of the viscera, or entrails; to eviscerate; to disembowel.