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Disembowel   Listen
verb
Disembowel  v. t.  
1.
To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate. "Soon after their death, they are disemboweled." "Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep From disemboweled earth the virgin gold."
2.
To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider. (R.) "Her disemboweled web."





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"Disembowel" Quotes from Famous Books



... the other illustration, is the reviewer so complete an optimist as to insist that the arrangement and the weapon are wholly perfect (quoad the insect) the normal use of which often causes the animal fatally to injure or to disembowel itself? Either way it seems to us that the argument here, as well as the insect, performs hari-kari. The ...
— Darwiniana - Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism • Asa Gray
... all his companions follow him, for by his side they feel as safe as if they were enclosed in a high and thick stone wall. The pursuit continues until those who flee become exhausted, and the pursuers slash at them and disembowel their steeds. The living roll over upon the dead as they wound and kill each other. They work dreadful destruction upon each other; and meanwhile the Count flees with my lord Yvain after him, until he comes up with him at the foot of a steep ascent, near the entrance of a strong place which belonged ...
— Four Arthurian Romances - "Erec et Enide", "Cliges", "Yvain", and "Lancelot" • Chretien de Troyes
... frogs and lizards form the basis of their food. According to Petherick, they do not disdain dead animals, whose carcasses they disembowel with their powerful hooked beak. They pass the night upon the ground, upon trees and upon high rocks. As regards nest-making and egg-laying, opinions are most contradictory. According to Verreaux, the balaeniceps builds its nest ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 • Various
... men even took up their oars to beat each other down, and the adventure lacked little of turning into a naval combat. More than this, they engaged to meet on land, showing their fists and threatening to disembowel each other as soon as ...
— The Fete At Coqueville - 1907 • Emile Zola
... yet frivolous People, who could mingle the twirling of Fans and the sucking of Sugarplums, with the most excruciating Torments ever inflicted upon a Human Being. At least, so I reasoned to myself; if we English hang and disembowel a Traitor, at least we strangle him first; and though the sentence is Bloodthirsty, the mob would rend 'Squire Ketch in pieces were it known that a Spark of Life remained in the Body of the Patient when the Hangman's Knife touched his Breast; but these Frenchmen have ...
— The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 • George Augustus Sala


Words linked to "Disembowel" :   withdraw, eviscerate, take, draw, take away, remove


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