Crossword clues for gutting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gut \Gut\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Gutting.]
To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate.
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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
(context British English) disheartening, crushing n. (context chiefly in the plural English) The remains after gutting a fish. v
(present participle of gut English)
Wikipedia
Gutting is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Ernst Gutting (1919–2013), German Roman Catholic bishop
- Gary Gutting, American philosopher
Usage examples of "gutting".
Several of the Amar were seated apart, skinning and gutting the animals the hunters had brought back.
He had revamped the training of recruits, choosing only the best and making great knights of them, and he had built facilities for his burgeoning army, gutting the abandoned buildings of Chancellery Square and turning them into useful war schools and barracks.
A split moment of delay bared him to a downward slice that opened his gambeson like a fishwife gutting a herring and streaked a stinging cut along the line of his ribs.
At first, much of the damage there suggested natural causes: an earthquake, perhaps, that had left downed buildings, fissured roadways, and fires casually gutting homes from which all occupants had fled.
One Stingray took a gauss slug directly into the cockpit, gutting the control section and leaving the pilot as little more than a smear over the back fuselage.
Efter twae weeks o dwelling amang us as blude-friends, gutting our winter victuals, burning up oor peat-bings, an dancin the reel o Bogie wi our lasses, those mangrels waukened one day at five in the morning and put the MacIan MacDonalds to the fire and the sword.
Arnold Bouvier was her foreman, but every hand doing the dirty work gutting catfish in his plant belonged to a woman.
She felt like gutting the control panel with her bare hands, then she noticed something odd about the readings from the parametric subspace field stress sensor.
You go back to him and declare my message: I will not think of arming for bloody war again, not till the son of wise King Priam, dazzling Hector batters all the way to the Myrmidon ships and shelters, slaughtering Argives, gutting the hulls with fire.
The children, were attentive: the Teaching was always better then gutting and preserving fish, or net mending, and longline baiting.
The Grolims started sharpening their gutting knives, but the generals wanted to leave Pallia intact-paying tribute, of course.
Harry Sears gave the press a handout that Russ Millard composed, the straight dope of everything except the gutting of the stiff.
PACs were denouncing the LipoVac spots' shots of rippling cellulite and explicit clips of procedures that resembled crosses between hyperbolic Hoover Upright demonstrations and filmed autopsies and cholesterol-conscious cooking shows that involved a great deal of chicken-fat drainage, and even though audiences' flights from the LipoVac spots themselves were absolutely gutting ratings for the other ads and the shows around them Network execs' sweaty sleep infected with vivid REM-visions of flaccid atrophied thumbs coming twitchily to life over remote zap and surf controls even though the spots were again fatally potent, the LipoVac string's revenues were so obscenely enhanced by the ads that LipoVac Unltd.
Beside them were the ship's boys, also joyfully gutting ticks, and hamstringing and "neutering" the curs with their razor-sharp knives.
Setting known terrorists free because we didn’t have evidence we could use in open court, defunding various CIA special ops people, you name it—he was gutting our whole effort.