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Embowel   Listen
verb
Embowel  v. t.  (past & past part. emboweled or embowelled; pres. part. emboweling or embowelling)  
1.
To disembowel. "The barbarous practice of emboweling." "The boar... makes his trough In your emboweled bosoms." Note: Disembowel is the preferable word in this sense.
2.
To imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury. "Or deep emboweled in the earth entire."





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"Embowel" Quotes from Famous Books



... thinke you Hellen, If you should tender your supposed aide, He would receiue it? He and his Phisitions Are of a minde, he, that they cannot helpe him: They, that they cannot helpe, how shall they credit A poore vnlearned Virgin, when the Schooles Embowel'd of their doctrine, haue left off The danger ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare


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