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- verb chiefly UK Present participle of
disembowel . - noun The act by which somebody is disembowelled.
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Examples
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The filial hero varies this a little, when "disembowelling" the Algerine commander, by requesting the
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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'attainder of treason' -- to prohibit forfeiture in perpetuity of property of every sort, no less than 'bills of attainder,' 'corruption of blood,' and barbarities of punishment, such as disembowelling, quartering, etc.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 Various
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He told me afterward that it was by only a matter of inches that I escaped disembowelling.
Chapter 3 2010
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Incidentally, I highly recommend disembowelling your family.
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Uday's a handful, living out some Baathist-inflected fantasia on De Palma's Scarface, shooting off guns indoors, plucking schoolgirls off the streets and raping them, exercising Caligulan droit du seigneur over a war hero's new bride, prompting her suicide, and mutilating and disembowelling his own dad's food-taster at a banquet to honour Mrs Hosni Mubarak par-TAY!
The Devil's Double and more movies on the megalomaniacal 2011
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This explicatory approach to the strange continues with the revelation of why the robot is disembowelling its victims.
Archive 2008-02-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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This explicatory approach to the strange continues with the revelation of why the robot is disembowelling its victims.
Strange Fiction in the Marketplace Hal Duncan 2008
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Perhaps they will munch on him, hounding him down as he runs for his car, disembowelling him in the parking lot and leaving Wimbledon without its reigning champion.
Wimbledon 2010 live blog: 23 June Xan Brooks at Wimbledon 2010
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As anyone who has ever been gazumped, gazundered or gaziddled can attest, being cheated out of the property on which you've set your heart is enough to make anyone think bad thoughts, though I'd like to believe not many of us would go as far as Josie in the disembowelling and penis-lopping stakes.
Why aren't more slasher movies set in blocks of flats? Anne Billson 2010
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- Killer reads passage from Ezekiel 25: 17 to teens before disembowelling them
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