disembowel
Gut something open
To disembowel is to cut open and remove the internal organs, especially the intestines.
The word appears in contexts of butchering animals, graphic violence, or historical execution methods: The hunter disemboweled the deer.
Figuratively, to disembowel something is to gut it of essential content: Budget cuts disemboweled the program.
Digestive tract, or instinct
- entrailsInternal digestive organs
- visceraAbdominal organs collectively
- offalEdible animal organs
- carcassSlaughtered animal's body
slaughter · field dress · game · hunt · clean · organ · cavity · blade
Graphic bloody violence
- mutilateInflict severe bodily harm
- savageFierce and untamed
- brutalSavagely harsh or severe
- woundCoiled, or an injury
slash · rip · tear · torture · murder · kill · attack · stab
gut
Digestive tract, or instinct
carcass · slaughter · field dress · game · hunt · clean · organ · cavity · blade · knife
gore
Graphic bloody violence
wound · slash · rip · tear · torture · murder · kill · attack · stab · impale
gut
Digestive tract, or instinct
undermine · devastate · weaken · dismantle · cripple · ruin · decimate · empty · deplete · sabotage
seppuku
Ritualized Japanese self-disembowelment
punishment · medieval · gallows · traitor · scaffold · public · sentence · condemned · executioner · Tudor
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