gutted

• So when she's doing that faraway look she isn't considering the human condition but pondering on what to have for tea. * gutted*
• Most of those stores have been gutted, their contents piled on the sidewalks. —  The Daily News - News
• When the fish was gutted, a hook with undigested bait still attached and part of a fishing line was found in its stomach. —  zanesvilletimesrecorder.com - Local News
• After being taken by the fisherman they are gutted, and then cured by exposure to the rays of the sun, after which they are smoked--over a fire, I believe--when the curing process is completed Shark fins, and the muscles of deer, are also exposed for sale by the Sooloo people to their Chinese visitors, by whom they are eagerly purchased for their countrymen's cookery, both of these articles being very favourite delicacies. —  Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850
• The warehouses full of merchandise, such as silks, velvets, and fine linen, were not burned, but all the grand houses of the merchants, where the life had been so stately, were utterly gutted--all the Spanish pictures and coloured tapestries going up in a blaze. —  On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.

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