disembowel

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ embowel

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [dɪsɪmˈbaʊ(ə)ɫ]

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• Rhymes: -aʊəl, -aʊl

Verb

disembowel (third-person singular simple present disembowels, present participle disemboweling or disembowelling, simple past and past participle disemboweled or disembowelled)

1. (transitive) To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     `Yea. The people of Kôr ever embalmed their dead, as did the Egyptians, but their art was greater than the art of the Egyptians, for, whereas the Egyptians disembowelled and drew the brain, the people of Kôr injected fluid into the veins, and thus reached every part.'

2. (transitive) To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider.

Derived terms

• disembowelment

Related terms

• disemvowel

Translations

to take or let out the bowels

• Bulgarian: изкормям (bg) (izkormjam)
• Dutch: ontdarmen (nl), ontweiden (nl)
• Finnish: suolistaa (fi), poistaa sisälmykset
• French: éventrer (fr), éviscérer (fr), étriper (fr)
• Galician: destripar (gl), estripar
• German: (animal) ausweiden (de)
• Icelandic: aflima
• Italian: sviscerare (it), sbudellare, sventrare (it), spanciare
• Latin: ēviscerō, exenterō
• Ligurian: desbêlâ
• Maori: tuaki, hāparangi
• Portuguese: desentranhar (pt), estripar (pt)
• Russian: вы́потрошить (ru) (výpotrošitʹ), потроши́ть (ru) (potrošítʹ), распотроши́ть (ru) (raspotrošítʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: rastranširati (sh), izvaditi utrobu
• Spanish: desentrañar (es), destripar (es)
• Swedish: ta inälvorna ur

to take or draw from the body

• Finnish: erittää (fi)
• Italian: secernere (it) (fluid, web)
• Serbo-Croatian: istranširati

References

• De Mauro - Il dizionario della lingua italiana, Tullio De Mauro. Torino: Paravia, 2000. ISBN 8839550232. Online version here