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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
innards
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A popular aberration has a light yellow exterior with towelling striped innards.
▪ But it had to be done, so I brought my dining buddy Matthew, who also has innards of steel.
▪ Fear twisted her innards in a knot, starting the sweat upon her face.
▪ I had Cooper's respray the panel and valet the innards with hot steam.
▪ My innards felt as empty as if I had been fasting for days.
▪ Something terrible happens to your innards when you suppress that much anger.
▪ Video machines are complex bits of technology and most of us don't begin to understand how their electronic innards work.
▪ Whether the abandoned innards, which are consumed by coyotes and ravens, harbor the disease is hotly debated.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
innards

innards \innards\ n. The internal organs of an animal collectively especially those in the abdominal cavity.

Syn: viscera.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
innards

1825, innerds, dialectal variant of inwards "the bowels" (c.1300); see inward.

Wiktionary
innards

n. 1 (plural of innard English) 2 The internal organ of a human or animal; ''especially'' viscera, intestine. 3 The inner workings of something; the insides or guts.

WordNet
innards

n. internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity); "`viscera' is the plural form of `viscus'" [syn: viscera, entrails]

Wikipedia
Innards

Innards is a term used broadly to refer to the 'insides' of something, but may also refer to:

  • Offal
  • Viscera
  • Gastrointestinal tract
  • Innards: The Metaphysical Highway, a short film by the Chiodo Brothers

Usage examples of "innards".

It was only partially finished, and in its innards she could see millions of tiny wires as well as now empty vacuum tubes and flasks, obviously placed to receive materials at a later date.

For a moment nothing happened, then a rumble issued from the innards of the analog Earth, Lanie calibrating the speed to real time.

Something was surging in my innards, and from the taste leaping into my mouth--even befouled as it was--it was some sort of mutton.

And then I finally succumbed to the roiling of my innards and unleashed what was within.

I hoped that my voice sounded casual but my innards were executing some peculiar gyrations.

The fluster then descended to my innards and my hands shook so that I spilled coffee as I filled the filter top, dropped a coffee mug, fortunately only into the plastic dish drainer so it was unscathed.

Her belly was carved open, and her innards were pulled out and set on the ground just above her right shoulder.

It would have taken the Ripper five minutes or more to disembowel poor Catherine and arrange her innards on the ground the way he did.

The gas is acid and hot and Judah screams as his skin splits, but he does not withdraw his hand, and he makes his scream into a chant, and he forces all the energies he has learnt and all the techniques he has stolen up from his innards and focuses them with the glass-pure nugget of hate and revenge he finds in him and channels and lets go with a cathexis purer and stronger than he has ever felt before, and thaumaturgic energies pour from him and make a golem.

In resentful unfolding gusts the cloud pushes its innards out and Judah sees movement inside, not wind-driven or random, and arms, supplicant, emerge from the obscurity and a man comes out, greyed by wisps that cling to him and become silicon chitin, crusting him as he falls, and behind is another belching of mist and another figure pushes through smokestone visibly harder now, wading through dough, scabbed with it, labouring under matter.

It fell back, it stood back on its fading heels as the lantern glow in its innards effaced it.

Gate, past Creekside and the remnants of the khepri ghetto, under the rails, to Smog Bend, into the innards of New Crobuzon.

Without the filing cabinets the fungus growing in the corners showed acid green and livid purple, with a wet sheen like the innards of a slaughtered beast.

SingIe-frequency, and the innards were positively neolithic, hand-assembled transistors and chipboards salvaged from imported consumer electronics.

Only some of his innards would be discarded, to wash up later on the shore.