disbowel

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ bowel.

Verb

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, […]

References

• “disbowel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.