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disembowelling

n. The act by which somebody is disembowelled. vb. (context chiefly British English) (present participle of disembowel English)

WordNet
disembowel
  1. v. remove the entrails of; "draw a chicken" [syn: eviscerate, draw]

  2. [also: disembowelling, disembowelled]

disembowelling

Usage examples of "disembowelling".

As it leapt Cormac dropped to his knees and rammed the blade into its belly, disembowelling it as the beast sailed above him.

Culain moved forward, blocking a slashing cut and disembowelling the first man.

Shadak followed up with a disembowelling thrust and the Sathuli swayed to his right, the blade slashing the skin of his waist.

He watched men die horribly, saw a beast from the depths of Hell tear human limbs asunder, disembowelling warriors, ripping their lives from them.

Druss hammered Snaga into a bearded face, then sidestepped a murderous thrust, disembowelling his assailant.

Delnar closed the ring behind him, disembowelling a Ventrian lancer and locking shields with Diagoras.

The custom of striking off the head, the prisoner only going through the semblance of disembowelling himself, dates from the period Yempo (about 190 years ago).

He reared up and killed the first two, one with a disembowelling lunge, the second with a reverse thrust.

Conan evaded the disembowelling sweep of the great misshapen left hand with its thick black nails, but the massive shoulder struck him and knocked him staggering.

Peering through narrowed lids at the Magus' chest, Conan made a disembowelling thrust with his knife.

With slashes of the assegai, the Beshwayo were disembowelling their corpses, allowing their spirits to escape: a last tribute to men who had fought well.

The knife maker had curved the steel to facilitate just this kind of disembowelling stroke, and the edge was so sharp that Kadem's tensed stomach muscles could offer little resistance to it.

On either hand, at every hundred yards, instead of the houseless, disembowelling paepaes of Nuka-hiva, populous houses turned out their inhabitants to cry 'Kaoha!

A while she seemed stunned, next fell to disembowelling the box, piling the goods on the floor, and visibly computing the extent of Francois's ravages.

He was, as Conn had guessed, fast, and twice Conn had to leap back from disembowelling thrusts.