Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To disembowel; eviscerate.
- transitive verb Medicine To remove the contents of (an organ).
from The Century Dictionary.
- Disemboweled; eviscerated.
- To disembowel; eviscerate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To take out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To disembowel; to
eviscerate
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb remove the contents of (an organ)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin exenterāre, exenterāt-, to disembowel : ex-, ex- + Greek enteron, entrails; see en in Indo-European roots.]
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Lycaon-like exenterate, as so many cannibals eat up, or Cadmus 'soldiers consume one another.
seanahan commented on the word exenterate
To disembowel.
January 17, 2008