EVISCERATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does evisceration mean? 

• EVISCERATION (noun)
  The noun EVISCERATION has 3 senses:

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

3. altering something (as a legislative act or a statement) in such a manner as to reduce its value

  Familiarity information: EVISCERATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVISCERATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("evisceration" is a kind of...):

operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

disembowelment; evisceration

Hypernyms ("evisceration" is a kind of...):

remotion; removal (the act of removing)

Derivation:

eviscerate (remove the entrails of)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Altering something (as a legislative act or a statement) in such a manner as to reduce its value

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the adoption of their amendments would have amounted to an evisceration of the act

Hypernyms ("evisceration" is a kind of...):

devaluation (the reduction of something's value or worth)