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Disbowel
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Disbowel
DISBOWEL
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
disbowel
disbowel
English
Verb
disbowel (third-person singular simple present disbowels, present participle disboweling or disbowelling, simple past and past participle disboweled or disbowelled)
- (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, […]
- 1591, Edmund Spenser, “Ruines of Rome: by Bellay” (in Complaints), sonnet 28:
References
- disbowel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913