evisceration

3 definitions found

evisceration - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Evisceration \E*vis`cer*a"tion\, a.
     A disemboweling.
     [1913 Webster]

evisceration - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  evisceration
      n 1: surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ)
           from a patient
      2: the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting
         so as to cause the viscera to protrude [syn:
         disembowelment, evisceration]
      3: altering something (as a legislative act or a statement) in
         such a manner as to reduce its value; "the adoption of their
         amendments would have amounted to an evisceration of the act"

evisceration - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  27 Moby Thesaurus words for "evisceration":
     abatement, attenuation, attrition, blunting, damping, deadening,
     debilitation, devitalization, dilution, disembowelment, dulling,
     effemination, enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion, extenuation,
     fatigue, gutting, inanition, languishment, mitigation, reduction,
     relaxation, slackening, softening, thinning, weakening