disembowel

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What we have got to do is to slaughter, disembowel, and brain all the Republicans This speech let loose such a thunder of applause that the old shed rocked with it, and a cloud of acrid and thick dust fell from its filthy walls and worm-eaten beams and enveloped the audience A resolution was carried vilifying the government and acclaiming Chatillon.

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  1. transitive verb To remove the entrails from.
  2. transitive verb To deprive of meaning or substance.

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  • There is no real economic purpose for their enslavement: the children exist solely to be tortured, in graphic and appalling detail, by the predatory Glendelinians, who crucify, disembowel, bum, and flagellate them. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 04-05 - October-November 2002
  • R. Allen Stanford says he has a wallet full of useless credit cards, three suits, an attorney he can't pay and an enormous amount of frustration and anger over the way he's seen the government "disembowel" the financial empire it took him 25 years to build. —  chron.com Chronicle
  • Them wuz his words--disembowel a whole army While Uncle Jake was speaking, the travellers had passed beyond the wall, but the declivity on their left was still too steep to accommodate the highway, and so they rode along with the shadows of night on one side of them and pale symptoms of the day on the other Suddenly a thin stream of fire, accompanied by the sharp crack of a rifle, shot out of the side of the mountain straight at Woodward, and seemed, as one of his companions said afterwards, to pass through him. —  Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White
  • What we have got to do is to slaughter, disembowel, and brain all the Republicans This speech let loose such a thunder of applause that the old shed rocked with it, and a cloud of acrid and thick dust fell from its filthy walls and worm-eaten beams and enveloped the audience A resolution was carried vilifying the government and acclaiming Chatillon. —  Penguin Island
  • Wallstein would have spoken to a man he was about to disembowel. —  The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
 

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/dɪsɛmˈbaʊɛl/
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