embowel

[ em-bou-uhl, -boul ]

verb (used with object)

, em·bow·eled, em·bow·el·ing or (especially British) em·bow·elled, em·bow·el·ling.

1. to disembowel.
2. Obsolete. to enclose.

embowel

/ ɪmˈbaʊəl /

verb

1. to bury or embed deeply
2. another word for disembowel

Other Words From

• unem·boweled adjective
• unem·bowelled adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of embowel¹

First recorded in 1515–25; em- ¹ + bowel

Example Sentences

Embowel, em-bow′el, v.t. properly, to enclose in something else; but also used for disembowel, to remove the entrails from:—pr.p. embow′elling; pa.p. embow′elled.—n.

From Project Gutenberg

To such a pitch have people already brought matters, that they can't look at anything as what it is, but search out some great big generality to which they may tie it and slay it and embowel it.

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"May I live to embowel James Anthony Froude" is the pious aspiration with which he has adorned another page.

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If thou embowel me to-day, I'll give you leave to powder me and eat me too to-morrow.

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No wheels by piecemeal brought the pile; No barks embowel'd Portland Isle; Dig, cried experience, dig away, Bring the firm quarry into day, The excavation still shall save Those ramparts which its entrails gave.

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