eviscerate

3 definitions found

eviscerate - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Eviscerate \E*vis"cer*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Eviscerated;
     p. pr. & vb. n. Eviscerating.] [L. evisceratus, p. p. of
     eviscerare to eviscerate; e out + viscera the bowels. See
     Viscera.]
     To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.
     [1913 Webster]

eviscerate - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  eviscerate
      adj 1: having been disembowelled
      v 1: surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ [syn:
           resect, eviscerate]
      2: remove the contents of; "eviscerate the stomach"
      3: remove the entrails of; "draw a chicken" [syn: disembowel,
         eviscerate, draw]
      4: take away a vital or essential part of; "the compromise among
         the parties eviscerated the bill that had been proposed"

eviscerate - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "eviscerate":
     abate, attenuate, blunt, bowel, cramp, cripple, damp, dampen,
     deaden, debilitate, devitalize, disembowel, draw, dull, enervate,
     enfeeble, exhaust, extenuate, gruel, gut, lay low, mitigate,
     paunch, rattle, reduce, sap, shake, shake up, soften up, unbrace,
     undermine, unman, unnerve, unstrengthen, unstring, weaken