disbowelv.
/dɪsˈbaʊɪl/ a. transitive. To take out the bowels of, eviscerate; = disembowel v. literal and figurative.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > maim or mutilate [verb (transitive)] > disembowel
bowel1330
disbowelc1440
debowel1487
unpauncha1500
garbage1542
unbowel1552
disentrail1596
untripe1611
disembowel1613
exenterate1613
hulk1622
eviscerate1623
eventerate1656
garble1661
viscerate1727
degut1933
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 122 Dysbowalyn, eviscero, exentero.
1591 E. Spenser Ruines of Rome in Complaints 383 A great Oke..halfe disbowel'd lies aboue the ground.
1708 J. Wilson et al. tr. Petronius Satyrical Wks. 75 The Cook that had forgotten to disbowel the Hog.
1711 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) VI. 704 His body has been disbowelled, and put into pickle.
b. To take out (bowels or viscera).
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1591 R. Wilmot Tancred & Gismund v. i. sig. G3v Thus was Earle Palurin Strangled vnto the death, yea after death His heart and bloud disboweled from his brest.
Derivatives
disˈbowelled adj.
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unbowelled1592
embowelled1597
bowelled1606
exenterated1657
disbowelleda1719
drawn1723
disembowelled1744
exenterate1835
a1719 Addison tr. Horace in Wks. (1758) 146 Nor the disbowell'd earth explore In search of the forbidden ore.
1871 D. G. Rossetti Burden of Nineveh in Poems ii 'Twas bull, 'twas mitred Minotaur, A dead disbowelled mystery.
disˈbowelling n.
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bowellingc1440
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paunching1591
eviscerating1599
unbowellinga1639
exenteration1646
exenterating1663
evisceration1692
disembowelling1746
disembowelment1875
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 122 Dysbowalynge, evisceracio.
1680 London Gaz. No. 1508/4 A most Curious and Excellent way of Preserving Dead Bodies, from Putrefaction..without Disbowelling, seer-cloathing, mangling or Cutting any part thereof.
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