disembowel
verbUK [dɪsɪmˈbaʊ(ə)ɫ]
Etymology From dis- + embowel.
1
To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
- `Yea. The people of Kôr ever embalmed their dead, as did the Egyptians, but their art was greater than the art of the Egyptians, for, whereas the Egyptians disembowelled and drew the brain, the people of Kôr injected fluid into the veins, and thus reached every part.'1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
2
To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider.
- Derived terms
- disemboweller, disembowelment
- Related terms
- disemvowel