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Webster 1913 Edition


Disembowel

Disˊem-bow′el

(dĭsˊĕm-bou′ĕl)
,
Verb.
T.
[See
Embowel
.]
1.
To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
Soon after their death, they are
disemboweled
.
Cook.
Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep
From
disemboweled
earth the virgin gold.
Thomson.
2.
To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider.
[R.]
“Her disemboweled web.”
J. Philips.

Webster 1828 Edition


Disembowel

DISEMBOWEL

,
Verb.
T.
[dis and embowel.] To take out the bowels; to take or draw from the bowels, as the web of a spider.

Definition 2024


disembowel

disembowel

English

Verb

disembowel (third-person singular simple present disembowels, present participle disemboweling or disembowelling, simple past and past participle disemboweled or disembowelled)

  1. To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
  2. To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider.

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References

  • De Mauro - Il dizionario della lingua italiana, Tullio De Mauro. Torino: Paravia, 2000. ISBN 8839550232. Online version here