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Webster 1913 Edition


Disbowel

Dis-bow′el

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Verb.
T.
[See
Bowel
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Verb.
T.
]
To disembowel.
[R.]
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Disbowel

DISBOWEL

,
Verb.
T.
[dis and bowel.] To take out the intestines.

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)

  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