Definitions
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- verb chiefly UK Simple past tense and past participle of
disembowel .
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Examples
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Why did Jackie Ashley break that quote for a handful of words to use the word disembowelled?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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With the word "disembowelled" that tension is extended -- is this a literal or figurative use of the term?
Strange Fiction in the Marketplace Hal Duncan 2008
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With the word "disembowelled" that tension is extended -- is this a literal or figurative use of the term?
Archive 2008-02-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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Here is The Guardian's Jackie Ashley struggling to get Mel to say what she wants her to say and when she can't she just interposes words like 'disembowelled':
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Why does the word "disembowelled" always make me chuckle?
Daily Rotten 2009
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And I realized that if it hadn't been for Ford, I'd have been disembowelled.
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With a sweep of his wicked feet (or hind-hands) he could have disembowelled them.
CHAPTER V 2010
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Even the New Yorker has to be disembowelled from dreadful plastic.
Archive 2009-02-01 Jean 2009
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If ever the nose of that board hits bottom, you'll be disembowelled.
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Wallace was stripped naked, tied to a horse and dragged to Smithfield, where he was hanged, cut down while still alive, then publicly castrated and disembowelled.
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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