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Embowel definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EMBOW'EL, v.t. [en, in, and bowel.] To take out the entrails of an animal body; to eviscerate.
1. To take out the internal parts.
Fossils and minerals that the emboweled earth
Displays.
2. To sink or inclose in another substance.

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-eled or -elled; -eling or -elling) Date: 1521 1. disembowel 2. obsolete enclose

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (embowelled, embowelling; US emboweled, emboweling) archaic = DISEMBOWEL. Etymology: OF emboweler f. esboueler (as EX-(1), BOWEL)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Embowel Em*bow"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emboweledor Embowelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Emboweling or Embowelling.] 1. To disembowel. The barbarous practice of emboweling. --Hallam. The boar . . . makes his trough In your emboweled bosoms. --Shak. Note: Disembowel is the preferable word in this sense. 2. To imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury. Or deep emboweled in the earth entire. --Spenser.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Eviscerate, disembowel, paunch, gut, take out the bowels or entrails of, free from the viscera. 2. Embed, bury, hide, conceal.