eviscerate

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Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
17
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ɪˈvɪsəˌɹeɪt/

Definition of eviscerate

5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To disembowel; to remove the viscera.
    “Desecrate me / Tear me limb from limb / Eviscerate me / Chew me to death”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To disembowel; to remove the viscera.
    “Desecrate me / Tear me limb from limb / Eviscerate me / Chew me to death”
  2. (transitive)To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless.
    “Coming on stage at sunrise on the Sunday, Jefferson Airplane greet the new day explaining they’re not a “hippie band” but “manic morning music”, then eviscerate Fred Neil’s Other Side of Life. Somebody to Love is also taken at breakneck speed – this turns out to be an energy tablet before a leaden day.”
    “Earlier the gentleman from California (Mr. Cardoza) got up on the floor, and he was upset that somebody had said that the underlying bill would eviscerate the Endangered Species Act.”
  3. (transitive)To elicit the essence of.
  4. (transitive)To remove a bodily organ or its contents.
  5. (intransitive)To protrude through a surgical incision.

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Etymology

From Latin ēviscerātus, past participle of ēviscerāre (“to disembowel”), from e- (“out”) + viscera (“bowels”).

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