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- noun Plural form of
gutting .
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Examples
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These guttings of statutory rights, however disguised, will be strenuously opposed by the Chamber.
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Beheadings, cut throats and being casually shot were the more common and merciful actions — compared to bayonet stabbings, rapes, guttings (disembowelments), numerous rifle butt beatings and a deliberate refusal to allow the prisoners food or water while keeping them continually marching for nearly a week (for the slowest survivors) in tropical heat.
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There are explosions, pick-axe murders and open-heart guttings.
Archive 2009-06-01 Glenn Dunks 2009
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Unleash the paparazzi on home guttings, cratered roads and empty schools.
John McQuaid: In New Orleans: Harry Anderson Out, Brangelina In 2008
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So, truly, comments, suggestions, and criticisms, although cheap and anonymous guttings of my name are likely to be ignored altogether.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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So, truly, comments, suggestions, and criticisms, although cheap and anonymous guttings of my name are likely to be ignored altogether.
Forging Ahead 2008
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So it is with a kingly seat: the best of the meats, after the great officers of the household have feasted, go to the dependants of these; the peelings and guttings, the scum and scour of the broth, are flung farther, to the parasites of the parasites, the ticks on ticks 'backs.
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett
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Various affairs along the way usually with men who have showers keep things interesting among the many accounts of fish guttings and entrail scoopings.
NYT > Home Page By SUSANNAH MEADOWS 2011
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Yeah, there’s a good bit of blood and mayhem – decapitations, guttings, seeing someone burned at the stake; it’s all here, some of it more graphic than others.
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Heck, the Taliban were big fans of the public punishment – didn’t they use Kabul’s major soccer field for public guttings and hangings?
7 CHS Students Beat, Urinate on Fellow Student at cvillenews.com 2002
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