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Disembowel
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate. Soon after their death, they are disemboweled. Cook. Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep From disemboweled earth the virgin gold. Thomson.
2. To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider. [R.] "Her disemboweled web." J. Philips.