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DISEMBOWEL (disembowelled, disembowelling)

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Irregular inflected forms: disembowelled  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, disembowelling  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does disembowel mean? 

DISEMBOWEL (verb)
  The verb DISEMBOWEL has 1 sense:

1. remove the entrails ofplay

  Familiarity information: DISEMBOWEL used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DISEMBOWEL (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they disembowel  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it disembowels  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: disemboweled  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation / disembowelled  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: disemboweled  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation / disembowelled  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: disemboweling  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation / disembowelling  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove the entrails of

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

disembowel; draw; eviscerate

Context example:

draw a chicken

Hypernyms (to "disembowel" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody


 Context examples 


Cherokee might well have been disembowelled had he not quickly pivoted on his grip and got his body off of White Fang's and at right angles to it.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Yes, there is your 'boite' at last: take it into a corner, you genuine daughter of Paris, and amuse yourself with disembowelling it, said the deep and rather sarcastic voice of Mr. Rochester, proceeding from the depths of an immense easy-chair at the fireside.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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