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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gutted
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Was there anything worth saving after the fire?" "No, the place is completely gutted."
▪ a street full of gutted buildings
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He spent an hour pottering about the gutted flat while Wiechert complained that he wanted his dinner.
▪ On every deserted street gutted houses sagged open, their contents indecently exposed to view.
▪ The gutted farmhouse appeared, silvered by the moon.
▪ The death toll has risen into the 20s, an estimated 4,000 businesses are gutted.
▪ The family found themselves with a gutted ruin and one surviving wing.
▪ The library of course was gutted, but Walker Books, a near neighbour of the school, is coming to the rescue.
▪ These were gutted and crumbling shells and almost certainly faced demolition.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gutted

Gut \Gut\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Gutting.]

  1. To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate.

  2. To plunder of contents; to destroy or remove the interior or contents of; as, a mob gutted the house.

    Tom Brown, of facetious memory, having gutted a proper name of its vowels, used it as freely as he pleased.
    --Addison.

Wiktionary
gutted
  1. 1 (context not comparable English) eviscerated 2 With the most important parts destroyed (often by fire), removed or rendered useless. 3 (context chiefly archaic English) Having a gut or guts. 4 (context slang English) deeply disappointed v

  2. 1 (en-past of: gut) 2 Past participle of gut#Verb

Usage examples of "gutted".

Colonies disappeared, on some worlds, or survived gutted of needed equipment and supplies, with half their population gone to slavers.

The big difference here on the new land was that the food didn't also have to be picked, dug, fished, or gutted: other working groups had already processed it for cooking.

And once the ships are gutted, there isn’t any use for space shuttles now is there?

She'd have gutted a whole net of packtail with less effort, so she was intensely grateful when Master Shonagar finally waved her to a seat.

Eventually, he got enough of a blaze and he stretched the gutted yellow tail over the fire to broil, barely able to contain his impa tient hunger until the meat darkened.

He gutted what remained after she was sated, and wrapping them in broad leaves, added that to his bundle.

Manotti complained at one point as he gutted the dispensable refrigerator unit.

A hatch cover had been ripped loose halfway down and wires and cables trailed out into the hall like the entrails of a gutted beast.

The SP recalibrated, changed course, through a holding area filled with gutted packing containers whose contents--regular navy helmets, coveralls, gray-green half-armor, and blankets--strewed the floor.

But if you case the voder in a gutted tracker droid, you can shoot it up the shaft fast enough to survive a few hits.

He was aware of the smell of Jawas strengthening in the room as he opened the tailgate, awkwardly balancing against the side of the sled as he dragged out the gutted Tredwell and the two Gyrowheel snake-droids.

Luke scanned the hall with his eyes and mind and detected not a fragment of loose metal, not even a gutted MSE or a mess-room plate .

Atmosphere fumed from a gutted hull, and Jason Windrider clung to his sanity with bleeding fingernails while tears streamed down his cheeks and TFNS Nanda Devi died under his THE OF CAIN Naomi Hezikiah felt out of place in Pommern's command chair, for a heavy cruiser was not normally a lieutenant commander's billet, and even the thin Bible in the breast of her ,c suit was scant comfort as she contemplated what was about to happen.

The surviving loyalists began a limping withdrawal, and a dozen gutted freighters drifted helplessly in their wake, glowing from the hits they'd taken.

Reznick sobbed and dragged himself away, nostrils full of the smell of his own vomit as he crawled across the gutted compartment through the shattered circuitry and molten cables.