Eviscerate

Quick meaning: Eviscerate is a verb meaning (transitive) To disembowel; to remove the viscera.

Meaning

(transitive) To disembowel; to remove the viscera.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

Desecrate me / Tear me limb from limb / Eviscerate me / Chew me to death

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.

Coming on stage at sunrise on the Sunday, Jefferson Airplane greet the new day explaining they’re not a “hippie band” but “manic morning music”, then eviscerate Fred Neil’s Other Side of Life. Somebody to Love is also taken at breakneck speed – this turns out to be an energy tablet before a leaden day.

Word Forms

• eviscerates
• eviscerating
• eviscerated

Synonyms for eviscerate

Depending on context, synonyms include exenterate, draw, disembowel.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include disembowel, draw, exenterate, embowel, unpaunch, guttle.

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