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Eviscerate

//ɪˈvɪsəˌɹeɪt// verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    having been disembowelled wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To disembowel; to remove the viscera. transitive

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

  2. 2
    take away a vital or essential part of wordnet
  3. 3
    To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless. transitive

    "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."

  4. 4
    remove the entrails of wordnet
  5. 5
    To elicit the essence of. transitive
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  1. 6
    remove the contents of wordnet
  2. 7
    To remove a bodily organ or its contents. transitive
  3. 8
    surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ wordnet
  4. 9
    To protrude through a surgical incision. intransitive

Etymology

From Latin ēviscerātus, past participle of ēviscerāre (“to disembowel”), from e- (“out”) + viscera (“bowels”).

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