eviscerate
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- 17
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- 10
Definition of eviscerate
5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(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
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(transitive)To disembowel; to remove the viscera.
“Desecrate me / Tear me limb from limb / Eviscerate me / Chew me to death”
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(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.”
- (transitive)To elicit the essence of.
- (transitive)To remove a bodily organ or its contents.
- (intransitive)To protrude through a surgical incision.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin ēviscerātus, past participle of ēviscerāre (“to disembowel”), from e- (“out”) + viscera (“bowels”).
Words you can make from eviscerate
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8 words7-letter words
30 words- ACTIVES 12 pts
- EVICTEE 12 pts
- RECEIVE 12 pts
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- SERVICE 12 pts
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- RAVIEST 10 pts
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- CREATES 9 pts
- CRISTAE 9 pts
- ECARTES 9 pts
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- CAVER 10 pts
- CAVES 10 pts
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- CIVET 10 pts
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- EVICT 10 pts
- AIVER 8 pts
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- AREIC 7 pts
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- CIRES 7 pts
- CITER 7 pts
- CITES 7 pts
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- ERECT 7 pts
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- ETICS 7 pts
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- AERIE 5 pts
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