degutv.
/diːˈɡʌt/ transitive. To remove the guts, contents, or essential elements of (in the senses of gut vb.).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > maim or mutilate [verb (transitive)] > disembowel
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degut1933
1933 D. Thomas Let. Sept. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 24 Open him [sc. Wordsworth] at any page: and there lies the English language... Degutted and desouled.
1948 W. Lewis Let. 25 Oct. (1963) 466 The publisher who dulls these letters down and deguts them will not only be doing a great disservice to Ezra but to the public of today and also tomorrow.
1960 Sunday Times 6 Mar. 6/8 We are certainly not going to de-gut the centre of London..to provide motorways and parking space.
1962 Daily Tel. 17 Dec. 8/8 The latest edition of ‘That Was The Week That Was’ [B.B.C. Television] was degutted as efficiently as any fish at Yarmouth!
1962 Daily Tel. 17 Dec. 8/8 It was pleasant to watch the farmers degutting the unhappy Mr. Levin.
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