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Webster 1913 Edition
Disembowel
1.
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
From
disemboweled
earth the virgin gold. Thomson.
2.
To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider.
[R.]
“Her disemboweled web.” J. Philips.
Webster 1828 Edition
Disembowel
DISEMBOWEL
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
disembowel
disembowel
English
Verb
disembowel (third-person singular simple present disembowels, present participle disemboweling or disembowelling, simple past and past participle disemboweled or disembowelled)
- To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
- To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider.
Derived terms
Translations
to take or let out the bowels
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References
- De Mauro - Il dizionario della lingua italiana, Tullio De Mauro. Torino: Paravia, 2000. ISBN 8839550232. Online version here