eviscerate

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eviscerate

  • /ɪˈvɪsəˌɹeɪt/

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From Latin ēviscerātus, past participle of ēviscerāre (“to disembowel”), from e- (“out”) + viscera (“bowels”), equivalent to e- (“out”) + viscera + -ate.

verb eviscerates · eviscerating · eviscerated

  1. transitive To disembowel; to remove the viscera. Desecrate me / Tear me limb from limb / Eviscerate me / Chew me to death
  2. colloquial, figuratively, transitive To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless. Coming on stage at sunrise on the Sunday, Jefferson Airplane greet the new day explaining they’re not a “hippie band” but “manic morning music”, then eviscerate Fred Neil’s Other Side of Life. Somebody to Love is also taken at breakneck speed – this turns out to be an energy tablet before a leaden d
  3. transitive To elicit the essence of.
  4. transitive To remove a bodily organ or its contents.
  5. intransitive, of viscera To protrude through a surgical incision.

Similar: exenterate

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verb to make ineffectual or meaningless

Deutschentkräften, schwächen, bedeutungslos machen, aushöhlen, unterlaufen, unterminieren
Русскийопустошать opustošatʹ, опорожнять oporožnjatʹ

verb to remove an organ or its contents

DeutschOrgan entnehmen, ausweiden

verb to protrude through surgical incision

Русскийвыхолащивать vyxolaščivatʹ

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@misc{eviscerate_2026,
  title = {eviscerate},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/eviscerate},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}