Evisceration

3 definitions found

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

  Evisceration \E*vis`cer*a"tion\, a.
     A disemboweling.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  evisceration
       n 1: surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ)
            from a patient
       2: the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of
          cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude [syn: {disembowelment}]
       3: altering something (as a legislative act or a statement) in
          such a manner as to reduce its value; "the adoption of
          their amendments would have amounted to an evisceration of
          the act"

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

  27 Moby Thesaurus words for "evisceration":
     abatement, attenuation, attrition, blunting, damping, deadening,
     debilitation, devitalization, dilution, disembowelment, dulling,
     effemination, enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion, extenuation,
     fatigue, gutting, inanition, languishment, mitigation, reduction,
     relaxation, slackening, softening, thinning, weakening