disembowelv.

Etymology: < dis- prefix 2a + embowel v. (in sense 3); but in sense 1 apparently only an intensive of disbowel v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: disemˈbowel.

a. transitive. To remove the bowels or entrails of; to eviscerate; also, to rip up so as to cause the bowels to protrude.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > maim or mutilate [verb (transitive)] > disembowel

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1613–18 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 124 The Kings Physition disimbowelled his body.

1772–84 J. Cook Voy. VI. iii. i. (R.) Soon after their death, they are disembowelled, by drawing the intestines and other viscera out.

1872 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia (new ed.) x. 159 The infuriated animal disembowelled him before his son's eyes.

1875 J. C. Curtis Elem. Hist. Eng. 148 While yet alive, he was..disembowelled and quartered.

b. transferred and figurative.

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1603 [see disembowelling adj. and n. at Derivatives].

1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Sixth 41 Earth's disembowel'd! measur'd are the Skies!

1871 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David II. Ps. l. 17 They disembowel texts of their plain meanings.

2. To take out of the bowels. (Cf. embowel v. 3.)

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1703 J. Philips Splendid Shilling 78 So her disembowell'd web Arachne in a hall or kitchen spreads, Obvious to vagrant flies.

Derivatives

disemˈbowelled adj.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > [adjective] > disembowelled

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [adjective] > of or belonging to Araneida > web-spinning > emitted from bowels (of web)

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1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 87 Cataracts, that sweep From disembowel'd Earth the virgin Gold.

disemˈbowelling adj. and n.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > [noun] > disembowelling

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1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxv. 83 High swelling and heaven-disimbowelling wordes.

1746 Fool (1748) I. 77 The Ripping up and Disembowelling of the dead Bodies.

1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. v. 127 The disembowelling of the deer.

disemˈbowelment n. the act of disembowelling.

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