eviscerate

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But it would be quite as great a mistake to eviscerate the words of their plain implications.

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  1. transitive verb To remove the entrails of; disembowel.
  2. transitive verb To take away a vital or essential part of: a compromise that eviscerated the proposed bill.
  3. transitive verb Medicine To remove the contents of (an organ).
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  • Our country deserves federal judges who will respect, not eviscerate, the First Amendment. —  God is for Suckers!
  • And yet the Bush administration has done everything it can to eviscerate one of the pearls in the American crown. —  MoJo Blogs and Articles
  • Maybe he's right-time will tell-but it seems odd to eviscerate the company for attempting something as ambitious as taking on the U.S. auto industry. —  Inc.com
  • Then they could proceed to eviscerate the answer, which is sure to be tax cuts and market deregulation, by stating the fact that WE HAVE ALREADTY TRIED THAT! —  Think Progress
  • Remember, as much as we'd like to eviscerate companies like Hula Direct and the spyware players that feed them traffic, this is all about advertiser laziness and indifference. —  ClickZ News Blog
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  1. Latin ēviscerāre, ēviscerāt- : ē-, ex-, ex- + viscera, internal organs; see viscera.

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  1. from Latin evisceratus, past participle of eviscerare (later Italian eviscerare, sviscerare = Old French eviscerer), disembowel, from e, out, + viscera, bowels: see viscera.
 

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/əˈvɪsəreɪt/
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