disembowel
to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
to cut or slash open the abdomen of, as by bayoneting, so as to expose or remove the viscera.
Origin of disembowel
1Other words from disembowel
- dis·em·bow·el·ment, noun
Words that may be confused with disembowel
- disembodied, disemboweled , dismembered
Words Nearby disembowel
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How to use disembowel in a sentence
If they were, they got a present, but if they weren’t, Perchta would disembowel miscreants.
The 13 Best Scary Christmas Movies to Deck the Halls With Horror | Eliza Thompson | December 6, 2021 | TimeTomás de Torquemada, for example, may have burned, stretched, hanged and disemboweled unbelievers, but he had nice hair and everyone agrees he was impressively persuasive.
Gene Weingarten: For a week I recorded my dreams. Here are my political prophecies. | Gene Weingarten | March 18, 2021 | Washington PostAnother promised to "disembowel him with a rusty pitchfork."
And placing the knife in the lad's hand, she added: "Cut off their heads, disembowel those infidel dogs!"
The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman | Eugne SueThe pursuit continues until those who flee become exhausted, and the pursuers slash at them and disembowel their steeds.
Four Arthurian Romances | Chretien DeTroyes
A ruffian sprang on MacAdam with an open knife, swearing he would disembowel him.
Ireland as It Is | Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)One of the old Indian women got hold of him and began to pluck his feathers off, then to disembowel him.
Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory | Lucien TurnerYet he had no liking for Germans and desired to cut them into small bits, to slit their throats, to disembowel them.
Now It Can Be Told | Philip Gibbs
British Dictionary definitions for disembowel
/ (ˌdɪsɪmˈbaʊəl) /
(tr) to remove the entrails of
Derived forms of disembowel
- disembowelment, noun
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