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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
eviscerate
verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A narrative scene shows owl-headed figures using a crescent-shaped knife to eviscerate a victim.
▪ Peggy the Hun would not eviscerate him and might even give him some credit for brains.
▪ The mine went up on the ridge, a great leaping core of compacted soil, the earth eviscerated.
▪ These were not the wizened and eviscerated pharaohs wrapped in yards of dusty gauze that one normally pictures when mummies are mentioned.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eviscerate

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
eviscerate

c.1600 (figurative); 1620s (literal), from Latin evisceratus, past participle of eviscerare "to disembowel," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex-) + viscera "internal organs" (see viscera). Sometimes used 17c. in a figurative sense of "to bring out the deepest secrets of." Related: Eviscerated; eviscerating.

Wiktionary
eviscerate

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To disembowel, to remove the viscer

  1. 2 (context transitive English) To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless.

WordNet
eviscerate
  1. adj. having been disembowelled

  2. v. surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ [syn: resect]

  3. remove the contents of; "eviscerate the stomach"

  4. remove the entrails of; "draw a chicken" [syn: disembowel, draw]

  5. take away a vital or essential part of; "the compromise among the parties eviscerated the bill that had been proposed"

Usage examples of "eviscerate".

William Safire New York Times column, an Australian journalist eviscerating the United Nations for corruption, editorials from smaller-market daily papers like the Rocky Mountain News and the Seattle Times, top blogger commentaries, U.

And he realized that some primal core where fear is born had been eviscerated, and that he no longer cared what happened to him.

But it was an incredibly violent world, where invading armies killed everyone, where women and children were routinely hacked to death, where pregnant women were eviscerated for sport.

He had read descriptions of streets slippery with blood, soldiers soaked in red from head to foot, women and children eviscerated despite their piteous pleas.

Men were eviscerated, beheaded, amputated of one or more limbs in a frenzied but brief struggle.

She saw her family and relatives being eviscerated by greedy alien horrors, things that tore at them with worm mouths that bristled with teeth.

She was slashed open from throat to groin and eviscerated, her skin was flayed off and her limbs were missing.

The rest were in the process of being eviscerated by members of the Three-G staff.

They are scarcely half buried before some beetle runs to them and destroys them by an eviscerating wound.

He skirted the Kill Room and the Eviscerating Room and strutted quietly past his battery of secretaries like a man in mourning.

Right now they were too interested in eviscerating rats in the boiler room to install a new pane anyway.

I was acutely conscious, as I spoke, of the eviscerated woman mumbling beneath her glass somewhere behind me, a thing that once would not have bothered the torturer Severian in the least.

Dragosani was a necromancer who ripped the private thoughts of the dead out of their ravaged bodies, who read their secrets in brain fluids and torn ligaments, in ruptured organs and eviscerated guts.

And the Schenckius,--the folio filled with casus rariores, which had strayed in among the rubbish of the bookstall on the boulevard,--and the noble old Vesalius with its grand frontispiece not unworthy of Titian, and the fine old Ambroise Pare, long waited for even in Paris and long ago, and the colossal Spigelius with his eviscerated beauties, and Dutch Bidloo with its miracles of fine engraving and bad dissection, and Italian Mascagni, the despair of all would-be imitators, and pre-Adamite John de Ketam, and antediluvian Berengarius Carpensis,--but why multiply names, every one of which brings back the accession of a book which was an event almost like the birth of an infant?

All Go Nogo would have to do is take a step or two toward me, and he would easily be able to eviscerate me with one sweep.