English Dictionary: disembowel | by the DICT Development Group |
2 results for disembowel | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Disembowel \Dis`em*bow"el\ (d[icr]s`[ecr]m*bou"[ecr]l), v. t. [See {Embowel}.] 1. To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate. Soon after their death, they are disemboweled. --Cook. Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep From disemboweled earth the virgin gold. --Thomson. 2. To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider. [R.] [bd]Her disemboweled web.[b8] --J. Philips. |