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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To disembowel; eviscerate.
  2. v. Medicine To remove the contents of (an organ).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To disembowel; eviscerate.
  2. Disemboweled; eviscerated.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To disembowel; to eviscerate

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. rare To take out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. remove the contents of (an organ)

Etymologies

  1. Latin exenterāre, exenterāt-, to disembowel : ex-, ex- + Greek enteron, entrails; see en in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Lycaon-like exenterate, as so many cannibals eat up, or Cadmus 'soldiers consume one another.”

    Anatomy of Melancholy

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Words with the same meaning

  1. disembowel
  1. eviscerate

hypernyms (4)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. remove
  1. take
  1. withdraw
  1. take away

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