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Embowel

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.

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embowel

vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To enclose or bury. 2 To remove the bowels; disembowel.

Usage examples of "embowel".

In England we have not yet been completely embowelled of our natural entrails.