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单词 eviscerate
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Definition of eviscerate in English:

eviscerate

verb ɪˈvɪsəreɪtəˈvɪsəˌreɪt
[with object]formal
  • 1Disembowel (a person or animal)

    the goat had been skinned and neatly eviscerated
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In addition to eviscerating an occasional cow here and there, our men will spread out over the planet's fields of grain to create wonderful patterns.
    • Please note I will be forced to eviscerate you in the process.
    • A soldier attacked, and was eviscerated within seconds.
    • Argue the acceptable character of the terrorist attack, and you are rightly eviscerated.
    • These ranged from insult and hyperbole to completely destroying property and literally eviscerating enemies.
    • Too bad there's not a button you can press to eviscerate someone.
    • Right outside the door was the body of a dog, skinned and eviscerated, the organs neatly arranged in a set pattern.
    • The man in the grey turtleneck eviscerates poor Jonah - or would have, if Jonah possessed viscera.
    • Caesar beheaded one man, and eviscerated another.
    • The Palestinians, caught in the ensuing whirlwind, were eviscerated, displaced, denigrated, and driven to desperation.
    • It was a new thing, that they could eviscerate him when they caught him.
    • Maybe their next challenge could be to eviscerate him with embroidery scissors and knit something out of the guy's entrails.
    • The fact that his educational opportunities expanded as a result of the same event that psychically eviscerated his father is compelling, but the theme is dropped.
    • He had been feeling through the inside, just right at the edge where the killer had eviscerated the dog, when he felt a slight aberration in the internal lining.
    • ‘I've never seen so many eviscerated people and terrible wounds in my life,’ said Rabab, 19, a nurse at the international hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh.
    Synonyms
    disembowel, gut, remove the innards from, draw, dress
    rare embowel, disbowel, exenterate, gralloch, paunch
    1. 1.1 Deprive (something) of its essential content.
      myriad little concessions that would eviscerate the project
      Example sentencesExamples
      • An appellate tribunal overturned the original opinion that had eviscerated free speech rights.
      • He lied us into two hideously unfair tax cuts; he lied us into an unnecessary war with disastrous consequences; he lied us into the Patriot Act, eviscerating our freedoms.
      • Today, as democratic politics is eviscerated into marketing alone, it is assumed that this candidate deserves to win.
      • The real issue today is how to beat the insurgency without eviscerating the American military to do it.
      • As one might expect, he's wasting no time eviscerating the sports media.
      • Extending terms of existing copyrights eviscerates this deal, granting a windfall to corporate copyright holders and heirs of famous artists in exchange for nothing, since the creators are mostly dead.
      • It takes a lot of chutzpah to denounce the unhealthy influence of campaign contributions at the exact moment you are eviscerating the spirit of our campaign laws.
      • An all-file-sharing environment would eviscerate the capital resources that make the technological development possible, and probably drive up the average cost to home-recorders considerably.
      • He learned from it, for here he eviscerates American culture as he defines class distinctions.
      • He both eviscerates the Democrats' arguments and puts the issue in Constitutional perspective.
      • Rather than a lack of will, what Latin America suffers from is a set of interlocking institutional crises that eviscerate the democratic order without necessarily promoting dictatorship.
      • He is simply an unwitting victim of circumstance; a convenient scapegoat for eviscerating the rule of law.
      • Should patents on research tools that have no significant market outside the research community be subject to a research exemption that effectively eviscerates their commercial value?
      • The disease is not only devastating families and communities; it is eviscerating national economies.
      • Giving ‘disposal’ passive content would eviscerate that plain purpose.
      • But content owners have raised legitimate questions about the scope and effect of these measures, and concerns about whether they would eviscerate their copyright protection technologies must be addressed.
      • But, Brandon says, courts have essentially eviscerated this part of the 21st Amendment - good for economic liberty but bad interpretation of the constitutional text.
      • The government's proposed monitoring would have eviscerated the attorney-client privilege.
      • None of these possibilities are likely to unfold, however, if the promise of economic security for retirement is eviscerated in the meantime.
      • Third, this is also the argument against ‘triggers’ that end the tax cuts if the deficit dwindles, because it eviscerates the restraints on government growth imposed by the tax cuts.
    2. 1.2Surgery Remove the contents of (the eyeball).

Derivatives

  • evisceration

  • noun ɪvɪsəˈreɪʃ(ə)nəˌvɪsəˈreɪʃ(ə)n
    formal
    • But the resistance is doing better now, partly because new media now give the traditionalists heavy aid, most notably in the devastating daily eviscerations of the deeply biased and increasingly shameful big-time press.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There are swordfights (human and alien), eviscerations and even some surprising-but-welcome computer-generated effects, as the blood of the fallen coagulates into an enormous red monster.
      • As a man struggling to reclaim my manhood from the evisceration I received at the hands of a fatherless upbringing, and a societal curriculum that drugs maleness to make it more feminine, I relate.
      • To speak of the diminished importance of history and literature, the evisceration of literary material, and the disintegration of a national culture presumes a benchmark from which this decline has taken place.
      • With a kind of devilish glee he devises for himself ever more terrible punishments, tortures, eviscerations.

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin eviscerat- 'disembowelled', from the verb eviscerare, from e- (variant of ex-) 'out' + viscera 'internal organs'.

 
 

Definition of eviscerate in US English:

eviscerate

verbəˈvisəˌrātəˈvɪsəˌreɪt
[with object]formal
  • 1Disembowel (a person or animal)

    the goat had been skinned and neatly eviscerated
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Too bad there's not a button you can press to eviscerate someone.
    • Argue the acceptable character of the terrorist attack, and you are rightly eviscerated.
    • Please note I will be forced to eviscerate you in the process.
    • The fact that his educational opportunities expanded as a result of the same event that psychically eviscerated his father is compelling, but the theme is dropped.
    • A soldier attacked, and was eviscerated within seconds.
    • He had been feeling through the inside, just right at the edge where the killer had eviscerated the dog, when he felt a slight aberration in the internal lining.
    • These ranged from insult and hyperbole to completely destroying property and literally eviscerating enemies.
    • The Palestinians, caught in the ensuing whirlwind, were eviscerated, displaced, denigrated, and driven to desperation.
    • In addition to eviscerating an occasional cow here and there, our men will spread out over the planet's fields of grain to create wonderful patterns.
    • The man in the grey turtleneck eviscerates poor Jonah - or would have, if Jonah possessed viscera.
    • ‘I've never seen so many eviscerated people and terrible wounds in my life,’ said Rabab, 19, a nurse at the international hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh.
    • Right outside the door was the body of a dog, skinned and eviscerated, the organs neatly arranged in a set pattern.
    • It was a new thing, that they could eviscerate him when they caught him.
    • Maybe their next challenge could be to eviscerate him with embroidery scissors and knit something out of the guy's entrails.
    • Caesar beheaded one man, and eviscerated another.
    Synonyms
    disembowel, gut, remove the innards from, draw, dress
    1. 1.1 Deprive (something) of its essential content.
      myriad little concessions that would eviscerate the project
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The disease is not only devastating families and communities; it is eviscerating national economies.
      • An all-file-sharing environment would eviscerate the capital resources that make the technological development possible, and probably drive up the average cost to home-recorders considerably.
      • Should patents on research tools that have no significant market outside the research community be subject to a research exemption that effectively eviscerates their commercial value?
      • But, Brandon says, courts have essentially eviscerated this part of the 21st Amendment - good for economic liberty but bad interpretation of the constitutional text.
      • But content owners have raised legitimate questions about the scope and effect of these measures, and concerns about whether they would eviscerate their copyright protection technologies must be addressed.
      • Today, as democratic politics is eviscerated into marketing alone, it is assumed that this candidate deserves to win.
      • Extending terms of existing copyrights eviscerates this deal, granting a windfall to corporate copyright holders and heirs of famous artists in exchange for nothing, since the creators are mostly dead.
      • Rather than a lack of will, what Latin America suffers from is a set of interlocking institutional crises that eviscerate the democratic order without necessarily promoting dictatorship.
      • He lied us into two hideously unfair tax cuts; he lied us into an unnecessary war with disastrous consequences; he lied us into the Patriot Act, eviscerating our freedoms.
      • He learned from it, for here he eviscerates American culture as he defines class distinctions.
      • He is simply an unwitting victim of circumstance; a convenient scapegoat for eviscerating the rule of law.
      • As one might expect, he's wasting no time eviscerating the sports media.
      • An appellate tribunal overturned the original opinion that had eviscerated free speech rights.
      • It takes a lot of chutzpah to denounce the unhealthy influence of campaign contributions at the exact moment you are eviscerating the spirit of our campaign laws.
      • Giving ‘disposal’ passive content would eviscerate that plain purpose.
      • Third, this is also the argument against ‘triggers’ that end the tax cuts if the deficit dwindles, because it eviscerates the restraints on government growth imposed by the tax cuts.
      • None of these possibilities are likely to unfold, however, if the promise of economic security for retirement is eviscerated in the meantime.
      • He both eviscerates the Democrats' arguments and puts the issue in Constitutional perspective.
      • The government's proposed monitoring would have eviscerated the attorney-client privilege.
      • The real issue today is how to beat the insurgency without eviscerating the American military to do it.
    2. 1.2Surgery Remove the contents of (a body organ).

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin eviscerat- ‘disembowelled’, from the verb eviscerare, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + viscera ‘internal organs’.

 
 
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