disbowel

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English

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Etymology

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From dis- +‎ bowel.

Verb

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disbowel (third-person singular simple present disbowels, present participle disboweling or disbowelling, simple past and past participle disboweled or disbowelled)

  1. To disembowel.
    • 1591, Edmund Spenser, “Ruines of Rome: by Bellay”, in Complaints, sonnet 28:
      [] a great Oke drie and dead, / [] / Whose foote in ground hath left but feeble holde; / But halfe disbowel'd lies aboue the ground, []

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