Embowelled

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Embowel \Em*bow"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Emboweled}or
     {Embowelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Emboweling} or {Embowelling}.]
     1. To disembowel.
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              The barbarous practice of emboweling. --Hallam.


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              The boar . . . makes his trough
              In your emboweled bosoms.             --Shak.
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     Note: Disembowel is the preferable word in this sense.
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     2. To imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury.
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              Or deep emboweled in the earth entire. --Spenser.
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