evisceration

American  

[ee-vis-uh-ray-shuhn] / i vɪs əˈreɪ ʃən /

noun

1. the act or process of removing internal organs, especially from the torso.

2. an act or instance of depriving something of vital or essential parts.

3. Surgery. an act or instance of removing an organ or the contents of an organ from the body.

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Example Sentences

The players failed dismally but the reaction will be an evisceration of the coach.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026

So the evisceration of TikTok will not necessarily destroy an artist's ability to reach audiences.

From Salon • Jan. 19, 2025

This was New York Magazine’s issue of June 8, 1970, which led with Tom Wolfe’s gleeful 25,000-word evisceration of a party that had been held at Bernstein’s Park Avenue apartment that January.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2023

Then there was “Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream,” a true-crime writearound that became an evisceration of the suburban idyll.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2023

They had made progress in obstetrics; described monstrosities and congenital deformities; practised version, evisceration, and Cæsarian section upon the dead and upon the living mother.

From Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages by Walsh, James Joseph