disembowel


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dis·em·bow·el

 (dĭs′ĕm-bou′əl)
tr.v. dis·em·bow·eled, dis·em·bow·el·ing, dis·em·bow·els or dis·em·bow·elled or dis·em·bow·el·ling
1. To remove the entrails from.
2. To deprive of meaning or substance.

dis′em·bow′el·ment n.
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disembowel

(ˌdɪsɪmˈbaʊəl)
vb, -els, -elling or -elled, -els, -eling or -eled
(tr) to remove the entrails of
ˌdisemˈbowelment n
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

dis•em•bow•el

(ˌdɪs ɛmˈbaʊ əl)

v.t. -eled, -el•ing (esp. Brit.) -elled, -el•ling.
to eviscerate (def. 1).
[1595–1605]
dis`em•bow′el•ment, n.
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disembowel


Past participle: disembowelled
Gerund: disembowelling

Imperative
disembowel
disembowel
Present
I disembowel
you disembowel
he/she/it disembowels
we disembowel
you disembowel
they disembowel
Preterite
I disembowelled
you disembowelled
he/she/it disembowelled
we disembowelled
you disembowelled
they disembowelled
Present Continuous
I am disembowelling
you are disembowelling
he/she/it is disembowelling
we are disembowelling
you are disembowelling
they are disembowelling
Present Perfect
I have disembowelled
you have disembowelled
he/she/it has disembowelled
we have disembowelled
you have disembowelled
they have disembowelled
Past Continuous
I was disembowelling
you were disembowelling
he/she/it was disembowelling
we were disembowelling
you were disembowelling
they were disembowelling
Past Perfect
I had disembowelled
you had disembowelled
he/she/it had disembowelled
we had disembowelled
you had disembowelled
they had disembowelled
Future
I will disembowel
you will disembowel
he/she/it will disembowel
we will disembowel
you will disembowel
they will disembowel
Future Perfect
I will have disembowelled
you will have disembowelled
he/she/it will have disembowelled
we will have disembowelled
you will have disembowelled
they will have disembowelled
Future Continuous
I will be disembowelling
you will be disembowelling
he/she/it will be disembowelling
we will be disembowelling
you will be disembowelling
they will be disembowelling
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been disembowelling
you have been disembowelling
he/she/it has been disembowelling
we have been disembowelling
you have been disembowelling
they have been disembowelling
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been disembowelling
you will have been disembowelling
he/she/it will have been disembowelling
we will have been disembowelling
you will have been disembowelling
they will have been disembowelling
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been disembowelling
you had been disembowelling
he/she/it had been disembowelling
we had been disembowelling
you had been disembowelling
they had been disembowelling
Conditional
I would disembowel
you would disembowel
he/she/it would disembowel
we would disembowel
you would disembowel
they would disembowel
Past Conditional
I would have disembowelled
you would have disembowelled
he/she/it would have disembowelled
we would have disembowelled
you would have disembowelled
they would have disembowelled
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Verb1.disembowel - remove the entrails of; "draw a chicken"
remove, take away, withdraw, take - remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"
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disembowel

verb gut, eviscerate, remove the innards from, draw a psychopath who hangs and disembowels his prey
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Translations
erittääpoistaasisälmyksetsuolistaa
aflima

disembowel

[ˌdɪsɪmˈbaʊəl] VTdesentrañar, destripar
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

disembowel

[ˌdɪsɪmˈbaʊəl] vt [+ animal] → éviscérer, étriper; [+ person] → éventrer
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

disembowel

vtdie Eingeweide herausnehmen (+dat); (= murder)den Bauch aufschlitzen (+dat)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

disembowel

[dɪsɪmˈbaʊəl] vtsbudellare, sventrare
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
References in classic literature ?
He twisted up one leg, and with the foot (or hind-hand) made so savage an onslaught upon my abdomen as to threaten to disembowel me.
After having been opened and disemboweled, they are exposed to the sun on scaffolds erected on the river banks.
Rolling over and over upon the turf the two battled with demoniac fury, until the colossal cat, by doubling his hind paws far up beneath his belly sank his talons deep into Taglat's chest, then, ripping downward with all his strength, Numa accomplished his design, and the disemboweled anthropoid, with a last spasmodic struggle, relaxed in limp and bloody dissolution beneath his titanic adversary.
In one I saw a disemboweled horse savagely spurred on by his rider at a bull-fight.
Her first act was to beckon me to follow her outside, and there she pointed to the explanation of our rescue from the bear--a huge saber-tooth tiger, its fine coat and its flesh torn to ribbons, lying dead a few paces from our cave, and beside it, equally mangled, and disemboweled, was the carcass of a huge cave-bear.
BETTER WATCH OUT (15) HHH HH ADORNED with the tinsel and twinkling fairy lights of a suburban Christmas, this sadistic game of cat and mice has surprisingly sharp claws and manages, on more than one occasion, to disembowel our expectations.
"From his injuries and his statement to police, it would appear his attacker has used a weapon with a hook to disembowel him."
BOSTON -- Kevin Spacey has asked a federal judge to imprison a Boston-area woman convicted of sending electronic messages that threatened to shoot, torture and disembowel the Oscar-winning actor.
If he'd said to the King, "How about just freedom for Aida and her dad, disembowel the rest of them, and I don't have to marry your daughter?" I am sure the King would have found that to be a reasonable compromise and agreed.
You can't disembowel zombies or perform a German suplex, and the replacement moves aren't nearly as flashy.
The evolutionist will tell you that this is because humankind had a hard time of it in the forest, what with poisonous snakes, insects and a panther or leopard waiting to disembowel you if you fell off your branch.
Did they ask the men to drive a stick-shift, fix a garbage disposal, or disembowel a life-sized Andrea Bocelli mannequin using only a paper clip while bellowing the Marine Corps Hymn?