disbowel

verb

disbowel

verb

Etymology From dis- + bowel.

1

To disembowel.

  • […] a great Oke drie and dead, […] Whose foote in ground hath left but feeble holde; But halfe disbowel'd lies aboue the ground, […]1591, Edmund Spenser, “Ruines of Rome: by Bellay”, in Complaints, sonnet 28:

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