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evisceration definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient
2: the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude [syn: disembowelment, evisceration]
3: altering something (as a legislative act or a statement) in such a manner as to reduce its value; "the adoption of their amendments would have amounted to an evisceration of the act"

Merriam Webster's

noun see eviscerate

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Evisceration E*vis`cer*a"tion, a. A disemboweling.

Moby Thesaurus

abatement, attenuation, attrition, blunting, damping, deadening, debilitation, devitalization, dilution, disembowelment, dulling, effemination, enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion, extenuation, fatigue, gutting, inanition, languishment, mitigation, reduction, relaxation, slackening, softening, thinning, weakening