eviscerate
eviscerated; eviscerating; eviscerates
Eviscerate is not a pretty word. To eviscerate can mean to remove the entrails of a creature. On the Discovery Channel you can watch a vulture eviscerate or take out the guts of a dead animal.
The word eviscerate comes from the Latin eviscerare, meaning "to disembowel." It's not strictly used in such a gruesome sense though. Sure, you can eviscerate a chicken by gutting its insides, but eviscerate can also be used to describe when you deprive something of its most important quality. If you take away the disco ball, it could eviscerate the spirit of your dance party.
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remove the entrails of
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surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ
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having been disembowelled
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Synonyms:
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injured
harmed
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injured
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take away a vital or essential part of“the compromise among the parties eviscerated the bill that had been proposed”
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type of:
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devitalise, devitalize
sap of life or energy
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devitalise, devitalize
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remove the contents of“eviscerate the stomach”
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type of:
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empty
make void or empty of contents
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empty
Vocabulary lists containing eviscerate
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