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- noun Plural form of
disembowelment .
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Examples
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Already my mind ferments with provocative scenarios for entertaining disembowelments.
The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010
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Yet these movies were the perfect showcase for the advancing prosthetics, with decapitations, disembowelments and other grizzly FX.Jason Voorhees became a pop culture icon, appearing on lunchboxes, in comics and even on chat shows.
Interview with Christian Sellers, Editor of GoreZone Magazine 2010
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Beheadings, cut throats and being casually shot were the more common and merciful actions — compared to bayonet stabbings, rapes, guttings (disembowelments), numerous rifle butt beatings and a deliberate refusal to allow the prisoners food or water while keeping them continually marching for nearly a week (for the slowest survivors) in tropical heat.
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American television viewers have been known to scream at the heavens when surprised by a bared heinie or a flashed boob, but they seem to be good with brain-bashings and disembowelments, which are also popular entertainment elements of the video games their kids are happily playing in the other room.
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American television viewers have been known to scream at the heavens when surprised by a bared heinie or a flashed boob, but they seem to be good with brain-bashings and disembowelments, which are also popular entertainment elements of the video games their kids are happily playing in the other room.
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I was just thinking about how great this image was, because it has swords going through heads and disembowelments and all sorts of fun stuff, but then I saw the little guy whose legs are dangling from the top of the image.
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The Oscar-winning "Braveheart" reveled in decapitations and disembowelments, not to mention the spectacle of Gibson himself, as the Scottish warrior hero, impaled on a cross.
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I was just thinking about how great this image was, because it has swords going through heads and disembowelments and all sorts of fun stuff, but then I saw the little guy whose legs are dangling from the top of the image.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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"Saving Private Ryan," with its "CSI" - style disembowelments and expletives undeleted, was nationally broadcast by ABC on Veteran's Day in both 2001 and 2002 without incident, and despite the protests of family-values groups.
November 2004 2004
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They viciously snapped, not only at each other's disembowelments, but like flexible bows, bent round, and bit their own; till those entrails seemed swallowed over and over again by the same mouth, to be oppositely voided by the gaping wound.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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