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Webster 1913 Edition


Eviscerate

E-vis′cer-ate

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Eviscerated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Eviscerating
.]
[L.
evisceratus
, p. p. of
eviscerare
to eviscerate;
e
out +
viscera
the bowels. See
Viscera
.]
To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.

Webster 1828 Edition


Eviscerate

EVIS'CERATE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. eviscero; e and viscera, the bowels.]
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)

  1. (transitive) To disembowel, to remove the viscera.
  2. (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.
  3. (transitive) To elicit the essence of.
  4. (transitive, surgery) To remove a bodily organ or its contents.
  5. (intransitive, of viscera) To protrude through a surgical incision.

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Italian

Verb

eviscerate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of eviscerare
  2. second-person plural imperative of eviscerare
  3. feminine plural of eviscerato

Latin

Participle

ēviscerāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of ēviscerātus