DISEMBOWELED

Verb

disemboweled

simple past tense and past participle of disembowel

Source: Wiktionary


DISEMBOWEL

Dis`em*bow"el, v. t. Etym: [See Embowel.]

1. To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate. Soon after their death, they are disemboweled. Cook. Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep From disemboweled earth the virgin gold. Thomson.

2. To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider. [R.] "Her disemboweled web." J. Philips.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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