Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To remove the entrails of; disembowel.
- intransitive verb To take away a vital or essential part of; weaken, damage, or destroy.
- intransitive verb To remove the contents of (an organ).
- intransitive verb To remove an organ, such as an eye, from (a patient).
- intransitive verb To protrude through a wound or surgical incision.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To remove the viscera from; take out the entrails of; disembowel.
- Figuratively, to deprive of essential or vital parts.
- To unbosom; reveal; disclose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
disembowel , to remove theviscera . - verb transitive To
destroy or makeineffectual ormeaningless . - verb transitive To
elicit the essence of. - verb transitive, surgery To remove a
bodily organ or its contents. - verb intransitive, of viscera To
protrude through asurgical incision .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having been disembowelled
- verb surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ
- verb remove the contents of
- verb take away a vital or essential part of
- verb remove the entrails of
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The Florida pastor, author and talk show host wants to outlaw abortion, abolish the IRS and Federal Reserve, and "eviscerate" federal programs such as Social Security.
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Toronto lawyer David Garson said the Conservative proposals would "eviscerate" the Immigration Act.
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Although the forecasts are lower, Charles Di Bona, an analyst at Bernstein Research, said Microsoft didn't "eviscerate" its numbers, which may give investors confidence that it is better insulated from economic turbulence than others.
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FICTION: The NAB claims that devices operating on adjacent television channels will "eviscerate" digital TV signals
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I had to look up "eviscerate" ... it means to disembowel.
A Guide to Hand-Kissing MJ 2006
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I don't see how a comedian can "eviscerate" anyone, at least not on an intellectual basis.
O'Reilly on "Colbert" and Colbert on "O'Reilly." Ann Althouse 2007
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And more than one witness has described to me how he can "eviscerate" opponents who try to take him on in meetings without having their facts straight.
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I don't see how a comedian can "eviscerate" anyone, at least not on an intellectual basis.
O'Reilly on "Colbert" and Colbert on "O'Reilly." Ann Althouse 2007
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He pointed to footnote 8 of Google's brief, in which Google argued that going to opt-in would "eviscerate" the settlement.
The Laboratorium James Grimmelmann 2010
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After nine rounds of scrunch-faced spellings and a few gleefully lucky guesses, Michael Whalon terminated his competition with "eviscerate" yesterday in the 35th annual Richmond Times-Dispatch Regional Spelling Bee.
brtom commented on the word eviscerate
"Every phase of the situation was successively eviscerated ..."
Joyce, Ulysses, 14
January 20, 2007