English

Verb

disbowel ‎(third-person singular simple present disbowels, present participle disboweling or disbowelling, simple past and past participle disboweled or disbowelled)

1. (rare) To disembowel.
   • 1591, Edmund Spenser, “Ruines of Rome: by Bellay” (in Complaints), sonnet 28:

     […] a great Oke drie and dead, / […] / Whose foote in ground hath left but feeble holde; / But halfe disbowel'd lies aboue the ground, […]

References

• disbowel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913