disembowel
/ˌdɪsɪmˈbaʊəl
/ /ˌdɪsɛmˈbaʊəl/verb (disembowels, disembowelling, disembowelled; US disembowels, disemboweling, disemboweled) [with object]
Cut open and remove the internal organs of: the dinosaur used its claw to disembowel prey...
- Like some prehistoric hunter, you imagine yourself triumphantly standing in the midst of your now disemboweled prey.
- The claw base-to-tip angle maximized the transmission of forces from the leg to the tip of the claw, providing for a powerful slash that may have been able to disembowel prey swiftly.
- At the end of its short stout legs are massive claws, sharp enough to disembowel the largest of predators.
Synonyms
eviscerate, gut, draw, remove the innards from
rare embowel, disbowel, exenterate, gralloch, paunch
Derivatives
disembowelment
/ noun ...- The word - in a horror film at least - usually precedes disembowelment and death.
- The girl's strangulation and disembowelment was the preeminent unsolved Homicide case.
- Maybe it was just some weird ritual disembowelment or something.