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eviscerate Definition


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eviscerate
verb eviscerated, eviscerating
    formal:
    1. To tear out the bowels of someone or something; to gut.
      Thesaurus: disembowel, gut, draw.
    2. To take away the essential quality or meaning of something.
Derivative: evisceration
noun
    formal
    Disembowelling.
Etymology: 17c: from Latin eviscerare to disembowel, from e out + viscera the bowels.



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