disembowel

[US]/ˌdɪsɪm'baʊəl/
[UK]/ˌdɪsɪm'baʊəl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. Remove (or take out) the internal organs, especially by opening the abdomen.
Word Forms
Past Tensedisembowelled
Past Participledisembowelled
Present Participledisembowelling
Third Person Singulardisembowels
Pluraldisembowels

Real-world Examples

I bet they could disembowel you with their claws.

Source: CNN 10 Student English May 2023 Compilation

Don't you have some poor animal to disembowel?

Source: Ice Age 1 Highlights

In another, he disemboweled a monkey and challenged his colleagues to repair it.

Source: Bilingual Edition of TED-Ed Selected Speeches

Allosaurus uses the enormous claws on its feet to disembowel its helpless prey.

Source: Jurassic Fight Club

Bodies were found disemboweled decapitated and with their hearts brutally removed or impaled by wooden stakes.

Source: Biography of Famous Historical Figures

When my uncle was in a reeducation camp, he would imagine disemboweling his torturers with a bamboo spike.

Source: Young Sheldon Season 2

It was there that they found a disemboweled black cat, a tin can with pieces of burnt wood from a coffin, but no Bernardo.

Source: Learn English with Matthew.

The hills have been cut and scalped, and every gorge and gulch and valley torn to pieces and disemboweled, expressing a fierce and desperate energy hard to understand.

Source: The Mountains of California (Part 2)

The bull had driven Felicite up against a fence; the foam from his muzzle flew in her face and in another minute he would have disembowelled her.

Source: A simple heart.

After he was killed, he was disemboweled, and his intestines ripped out so that his body would sink when rolled into the lake-a detail that I've compulsively reviewed in my mind since I first heard it.

Source: Modern University English Intensive Reading (2nd Edition) Volume 4

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