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Disembowel   Listen
verb
Disembowel  v. t.  
1.
To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate. "Soon after their death, they are disemboweled." "Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep From disemboweled earth the virgin gold."
2.
To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider. (R.) "Her disemboweled web."





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"Disembowel" Quotes from Famous Books



... blood for blood! I will kill your dearest friend. I have here the hostages of Acharnae;(1) I shall disembowel them. ...
— The Acharnians • Aristophanes
... whether torrid, temperate or frigid. Possessed of the knowledge of the utility of the soil, he has hands to cultivate it. Located far distant oftentimes from the running stream, these hands enable him to disembowel the earth and there find an abundant supply of the all-necessary fluid. Endowed with rational ideas, pen in hand he can transmit them to his fellows far away, or to generations unborn. Heir and lord ...
— The Christian Foundation, April, 1880


Words linked to "Disembowel" :   eviscerate, withdraw, remove


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