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  • verb Present participle of disembowel.
  • noun The act by which somebody is disemboweled.

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Examples

  • In 2008, the Supreme Court ruled that lethal injection was not "cruel and unusual punishment," like other methods of execution, "such as disemboweling, beheading, quartering, dissecting, and burning alive, all of which share the deliberate infliction of pain for the sake of pain."

    The Lede 2009

  • My assistant, who was having dinner with us, grabbed my knee in the middle of that diatribe and while I thought of going for the steak knife and disemboweling this famous person, my assistant held me down and dug his fingers into my thigh until I was black-and-blue.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2010 » January 2010

  • That's when a boxer named Cleomedes killed his opponent Iccus "by driving his hand into his stomach and disemboweling him."

    Testosterone Put to the Test Dave Shiflett 2010

  • Some Ministers who are to be cast out into the wilderness (the "back of the benches", in cult lore) have chosen self-immolation instead, with one case reported of seppuku, or disemboweling oneself on one's own second home.

    Horror in Browntown 2009

  • My assistant, who was having dinner with us, grabbed my knee in the middle of that diatribe and while I thought of going for the steak knife and disemboweling this famous person, my assistant held me down and dug his fingers into my thigh until I was black-and-blue.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2010 » January » 28 2010

  • Don Coxe , strategy adviser to BMO Capital Markets, said the first major challenge in the banking world "came in 2008, when trillions of dollars' face value in AAA-rated U.S. mortgage instruments went spectacularly sour, nearly disemboweling banks on both sides of the Atlantic."

    U.S. Bank Bonds Still Seen as a Good Buy Despite Bruising Kellie Geressy-Nilsen 2011

  • I can distinctly recall growing very impatient with the kind of critical study in which the writer takes umbrage with some, often minor, point that another critic has made, and proceeds to spend the next 250 pages disemboweling that point, along with the critic who made it.

    The Grumpy Critic « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • My assistant, who was having dinner with us, grabbed my knee in the middle of that diatribe and while I thought of going for the steak knife and disemboweling this famous person, my assistant held me down and dug his fingers into my thigh until I was black-and-blue.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2010 » January 2010

  • By the third obligatory sex scene (or the second obligatory and unconvincing disemboweling, I can't recall), I was nodding off.

    "Children wake up, hold your mistake up..." greygirlbeast 2009

  • My assistant, who was having dinner with us, grabbed my knee in the middle of that diatribe and while I thought of going for the steak knife and disemboweling this famous person, my assistant held me down and dug his fingers into my thigh until I was black-and-blue.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Professional Courtesy 2010

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