disemboweled
Entrails violently extracted
Disemboweled means having had the intestines or internal organs removed, whether by violence, surgery, or butchering.
A disemboweled corpse has been cut open and gutted.
Figuratively, something disemboweled has been stripped of its essential contents: The budget cuts left the program disemboweled.
Also spelled disembowelled in British English.
Emptied of contents
- slaughteredKilled violently, often many
- mutilatedDamaged by severing parts
- slainKilled, often violently
- butcheredKilled and dismembered crudely
gored · entrails · viscera · innards · intestines · organs · blade · sword
Made empty within
- strippedHad coverings removed
- guttedEmptied of contents
- emptiedRemoved all contents from
- ravagedSeverely damaged or destroyed
destroyed · devastated · ruined · dismantled · weakened · undermined · drained · depleted
gutted
Emptied of contents
- slaughteredKilled violently, often many
- mutilatedDamaged by severing parts
- slainKilled, often violently
butchered · gored · entrails · viscera · innards · intestines · organs · blade · sword · wound
hollowed
Made empty within
ravaged · destroyed · devastated · ruined · dismantled · weakened · undermined · drained · depleted · ransacked
field dressing
Emergency wound treatment outdoors
carcass · knife · hunter · cleaning · skinning · butchering · offal · cavity · dressed · quartering
visceral
Arising from deep instinct
- graphicVividly detailed or visual
- gruesomeCausing horror and disgust
- macabreDisturbing, death-obsessed
horror · battlefield · medieval · torture · execution · martyrdom · mythology · Prometheus · samurai · seppuku
disemboweledintact
Not damaged or altered
whole · unviolated · unblemished · undamaged · untouched
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