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disembowelments

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  • noun Plural form of disembowelment.

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Examples

  • Already my mind ferments with provocative scenarios for entertaining disembowelments.

    The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

  • 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

  • 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.

    The essence of Day of Valor 2009

  • 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.

    No "Glee" on NBC, Less Violence on the BBC, "Monty Python" on IFC, "Leave It To Lamas" on E! - Ed Martin - MediaBizBloggers 2009

  • 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.

    Ed Martin: No "Glee" on NBC, Less Violence on the BBC, "Monty Python" on IFC, "Leave It To Lamas" on E! 2009

  • 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.

    illuminating a mystery 2007

  • 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.

    SO WHAT'S THE GOOD NEWS? 2007

  • 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

  • "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

  • 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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