disembowelverb [ T ]
uk/ˌdɪs.ɪmˈbaʊ.əl/us/ˌdɪs.ɪmˈbaʊ.əl/-ll- or US usually -l-to remove the stomach and bowels from a dead animal, or to kill a person in this way, especially in the past as a punishment
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Murder & attempted murder
- assassinate
- assassination
- attempt
- blow sb away
- blow sb's brains out idiom
- bump
- dispatch
- lynch law
- manslaughter
- martyr
- martyred
- mass murder
- necklace
- poison
- slain
- slay
- slaying
- slew 1
- snuff sb out
- throttle
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- After a short time the operation was again commenced, and in a few minutes the body disembowelled.
- He was fighting to get under, as he had flung himself under the caribou he had disembowelled.
- He who commits high treason is disembowelled alive, and they tear out his heart and buffet his cheeks with it.
- The nobles, when he had been disembowelled, had his body kept embalmed for three years, for they feared the provinces would rise if the king's end were published.
- With a furious bound, the bound of an enraged wild beast that wishes to disembowel its tamer, I crossed my room to seize him, to strangle him, to kill him!...