unbowel
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Verb[edit]
unbowel (third-person singular simple present unbowels, present participle unbowelling or unboweling, simple past and past participle unbowelled or unboweled)
- (transitive) To deprive of the entrails; to disembowel.
- 1600, John King, Lectures upon Jonas, delivered at Yorke:
- they ransacke all the corners of the shippe, vnbowel her inmost celles
References[edit]
- “unbowel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.