disembowel

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ embowel

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aʊəl, Rhymes: -aʊl

Verb

disembowel (third-person singular simple present disembowels, present participle disemboweling or disembowelling, simple past and past participle disemboweled or disembowelled)

1. To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
2. To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider.

Derived terms

• disembowelment

Translations

to take or let out the bowels

Bulgarian: изкормям (bg) Finnish: suolistaa (fi), poistaa (fi) sisälmykset (fi) French: éventrer (fr) German: ausweiden (animal)

Icelandic: aflima (is) Italian: sviscerare (it), sbudellare (it), sventrare (it), spanciare (it) Russian: выпотрошить (ru) (vypotroshit') Spanish: desentrañar (es)

to take or draw from the body

Finnish: erittää (fi)

Italian: secernere (it) (fluid, web)

References

• De Mauro - Il dizionario della lingua italiana, Tullio De Mauro. Torino: Paravia, 2000. ISBN 8839550232. Online version here