disembowelling
Removing internal organs
Disembowelling is the act of removing the internal organs from a body, especially the intestines.
The word appears in descriptions of violence, torture, or butchery: The executioner's method involved disembowelling the condemned.
Figuratively, to disembowel something is to gut it of essential contents: Budget cuts are disembowelling the program.
Also spelled disemboweling.
Removing internal organs
- drawingMarks forming a picture
- quarteringDivision by four
- hangingExecution by noose
- scaffoldTemporary elevated work structure
medieval · punishment · torture · ritual · public · entrails · viscera · executioner
Emergency wound treatment outdoors
- guttingRemoving internal organs
- gameOrganized play or sport
- carcassSlaughtered animal's body
- venisonFlesh of cervids
skinning · butchering · knife · entrails · offal · deer · elk · hunter
Graphic bloody violence
- slasherKnife-wielding horror villain
- visceraAbdominal organs collectively
- intestinesCoiled digestive organs
- spillingLiquid flowing over edges
gruesome · bloody · violence · monster · creature · zombie · splatter · carnage
Removing internal organs
- destroyingCausing complete ruin
- dismantlingTaking apart systematically
- hollowingMaking concave inside
- strippingRemoving outer layers
undermining · weakening · devastating · ruining · emptying · sabotaging · crippling · demolishing
gutting
Removing internal organs
- drawingMarks forming a picture
- quarteringDivision by four
- hangingExecution by noose
scaffold · medieval · punishment · torture · ritual · public · entrails · viscera · executioner · condemned
field dressing
Emergency wound treatment outdoors
venison · skinning · butchering · knife · entrails · offal · deer · elk · hunter · processing
gore
Graphic bloody violence
- slasherKnife-wielding horror villain
- visceraAbdominal organs collectively
- intestinesCoiled digestive organs
spilling · gruesome · bloody · violence · monster · creature · zombie · splatter · carnage · guts
gutting
Removing internal organs
- destroyingCausing complete ruin
- dismantlingTaking apart systematically
- hollowingMaking concave inside
stripping · undermining · weakening · devastating · ruining · emptying · sabotaging · crippling · demolishing · ravaging
laparotomy
Abdominal cavity access cut
intestines · surgical · wound · trauma · emergency · cavity · visceral · operation · complication · peritoneal
disembowellingpreserving
Protecting from deterioration
healing · protecting · mending · restoring · suturing
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