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Webster 1913 Edition
Eviscerate
E-vis′cer-ate
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Eviscerated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Eviscerating
.] To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.
Webster 1828 Edition
Eviscerate
EVIS'CERATE
,Verb.
T.
To embowel or disembowel; to take out the entrails; to search the bowels.
Definition 2024
eviscerate
eviscerate
English
Verb
eviscerate (third-person singular simple present eviscerates, present participle eviscerating, simple past and past participle eviscerated)
- (transitive) To disembowel, to remove the viscera.
- (transitive) To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless.
- 2005, Congress, Congressional Record, volume 151, part 16, page 21847:
- Earlier the gentleman from California (Mr. Cardoza) got up on the floor, and he was upset that somebody had said that the underlying bill would eviscerate the Endangered Species Act.
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- (transitive) To elicit the essence of.
- (transitive, surgery) To remove a bodily organ or its contents.
- (intransitive, of viscera) To protrude through a surgical incision.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
to disembowel
to make ineffectual or meaningless
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to protrude through surgical incision
Anagrams
Italian
Verb
eviscerate
- second-person plural present indicative of eviscerare
- second-person plural imperative of eviscerare
- feminine plural of eviscerato