disembowel

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ embowel

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): [dɪsɪmˈbaʊ(ə)ɫ]
Rhymes: -aʊəl, Rhymes: -aʊl

Verb

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

(transitive) To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
(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)
Galician: destripar, estripar
German: (animal) ausweiden (de)
Icelandic: aflima

Italian: sviscerare (it), sbudellare, sventrare (it), spanciare
Latin: ēviscerō, exenterō
Maori: tuaki, hāparangi
Portuguese: desentranhar, estripar (pt)
Russian: вы́потрошить (ru) (výpotrošitʹ)
Spanish: desentrañar (es), destripar (es)
Swedish: ta inälvorna ur

to take or draw from the body

Finnish: erittää (fi)

Italian: secernere (it) (fluid, web)

References

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

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