The act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude

Usage examples of disembowelment.

Multiple rape followed by disembowelment or impalement was far more common than was enslavement for women and little girls, while in the cases of men and boys, an amusing session of savage tortures and deliberate maimings which invariably included castration was most often followed by slowly roasting them alive, although if the horde happened to be in a hurry, they might cut leg and arm tendons, pull out tongues, gouge or burn out eyes, and just leave the bloody, blind, croaking, flopping sufferer to bleed to death.

Among the German farmers of Lancaster, for example, are scores, perhaps hundreds, of truly, literally Good People, escap'd from a Hell we in our small tended Quotidian may but try to imagine, entire Villages put to Flame, and Tortures worse than Inquisitorial, disembowelments, bloodlettings, a world without Innocence, yet, escap'd here, into Innocence reborn, something deeper and more intricate, they call it "a new Life in Christ," it is their way of explaining it.

They viciously snapped, not only at each other's disembowelments, but like flexible bows, bent round, and bit their own.

They viciously snapped, not only at each other’s disembowelments, but like flexible bows, bent round, and bit their own.

The wounds on two of them were like those on the corpses found at Valent House, with the tattered, hideously stained clothing torn aside to reveal disembowelments, eyes gouged, rope marks on wrists and ankles.

Seppuku, sometimes called hara-kiri, the ritual suicide by disembowelment, was the only way a samurai could expiate a shame, a sin, or a fault with honor, and was the sole prerogative of the samurai caste.

According to the tradition, the three Juwes had all manner of insidious tortures inflicted on them as punishment and warning, including the removal of their tongues and ritual disembowelment, with the intestines thrown over one shoulder.