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Webster 1913 Edition

(dĭsˊĕm-bou′ĕl)

Verb.

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To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.

Soon after their death, they are

disemboweled

Cook.

Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep
From

disemboweled

earth the virgin gold.

Thomson.

To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider.

[R.]

“Her disemboweled web.”

J. Philips.

Verb.

[dis and embowel.] To take out the bowels; to take or draw from the bowels, as the web of a spider.