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Eviscerate definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EVIS'CERATE, v.t. [L. eviscero; e and viscera, the bowels.]
To embowel or disembowel; to take out the entrails; to search the bowels.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having been disembowelled v
1: surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ [syn: resect, eviscerate]
2: remove the contents of; "eviscerate the stomach"
3: remove the entrails of; "draw a chicken" [syn: disembowel, eviscerate, draw]
4: take away a vital or essential part of; "the compromise among the parties eviscerated the bill that had been proposed"

Merriam Webster's

verb (-ated; -ating) Etymology: Latin evisceratus, past participle of eviscerare, from e- + viscera viscera Date: 1599 transitive verb 1. a. to take out the entrails of ; disembowel b. to deprive of vital content or force 2. to remove an organ from (a patient) or the contents of (an organ) intransitive verb to protrude through a surgical incision or suffer protrusion of a part through an incision • evisceration noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. formal 1 disembowel. 2 empty or deprive of essential contents. Derivatives: evisceration n. Etymology: L eviscerare eviscerat- (as E-, VISCERA)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Eviscerate E*vis"cer*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Eviscerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Eviscerating.] [L. evisceratus, p. p. of eviscerare to eviscerate; e out + viscera the bowels. See Viscera.] To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(eviscerates, eviscerating, eviscerated) 1. To eviscerate a person or animal means to remove their internal organs, such as their heart, lungs, and stomach. (FORMAL) ...strangling and eviscerating rabbits for the pot. VERB: V n 2. If you say that something will eviscerate an organization or system, you are emphasizing that it will make the organization or system much weaker or much less powerful. (FORMAL) Democrats say the petition will eviscerate state government. VERB: V n [emphasis]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Disembowel, embowel, paunch, gut, take out the bowels of.

Moby Thesaurus

abate, attenuate, blunt, bowel, cramp, cripple, damp, dampen, deaden, debilitate, devitalize, disembowel, draw, dull, enervate, enfeeble, exhaust, extenuate, gruel, gut, lay low, mitigate, paunch, rattle, reduce, sap, shake, shake up, soften up, unbrace, undermine, unman, unnerve, unstrengthen, unstring, weaken