Eviscerate

3 definitions found

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

  Eviscerate \E*vis"cer*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Eviscerated};
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Eviscerating}.] [L. evisceratus, p. p. of
     eviscerare to eviscerate; e out + viscera the bowels. See
     {Viscera}.]
     To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  eviscerate
       adj : having been disembowelled
       v 1: surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ [syn: {resect}]
       2: remove the contents of; "eviscerate the stomach"
       3: remove the entrails of; "draw a chicken" [syn: {disembowel},
           {draw}]
       4: take away a vital or essential part of; "the compromise
          among the parties eviscerated the bill that had been
          proposed"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "eviscerate":
     abate, attenuate, blunt, bowel, cramp, cripple, damp, dampen,
     deaden, debilitate, devitalize, disembowel, draw, dull, enervate,
     enfeeble, exhaust, extenuate, gruel, gut, lay low, mitigate,
     paunch, rattle, reduce, sap, shake, shake up, soften up, unbrace,
     undermine, unman, unnerve, unstrengthen, unstring, weaken