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DISEMBOWEL

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: disembowelled    , disembowelling   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove the entrails of

Example:

draw a chicken

Synonyms:

disembowel; draw; eviscerate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "disembowel" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

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