disembowelment
Removing internal organs
Disembowelment is the removal of the bowels or internal organs from a body.
The term appears in descriptions of torture, execution methods, animal butchery, and gory fiction: The coroner noted signs of disembowelment.
Figuratively, disembowelment describes thorough gutting of anything: the disembowelment of the federal budget.
Giving up something precious
- seppukuRitualized Japanese self-disembowelment
- harakiriRitual Japanese suicide
- ritual suicideFormalized self-inflicted death
- samuraiFeudal Japanese military caste
bushido · honor · ceremonial · tanto · Japanese · warrior · shame · atonement
Abdominal organs collectively
- intestinesCoiled digestive organs
- entrailsInternal digestive organs
- abdominal cavityTrunk's organ-containing void
- organsFunctional body parts
peritoneum · guts · innards · stomach · colon · abdomen · cavity · extraction
Emergency wound treatment outdoors
- guttingRemoving internal organs
- venisonFlesh of cervids
- deerAntlered hoofed mammal
- butcheringProcessing animals into cuts
game processing · carcass · offal · skinning · hunter · knife · cleaning · wild game
Removing internal organs
- drawingMarks forming a picture
- quarteringDivision by four
- tortureDeliberate infliction of suffering
- capital punishmentExecution by legal authority
medieval · scaffold · executioner · public execution · Braveheart · gallows · hanging · punishment
sacrifice
Giving up something precious
- seppukuRitualized Japanese self-disembowelment
- harakiriRitual Japanese suicide
- ritual suicideFormalized self-inflicted death
samurai · bushido · honor · ceremonial · tanto · Japanese · warrior · shame · atonement · feudal
viscera
Abdominal organs collectively
- intestinesCoiled digestive organs
- entrailsInternal digestive organs
- abdominal cavityTrunk's organ-containing void
organs · peritoneum · guts · innards · stomach · colon · abdomen · cavity · extraction · removal
field dressing
Emergency wound treatment outdoors
game processing · butchering · carcass · offal · skinning · hunter · knife · cleaning · wild game · harvest
gutting
Removing internal organs
- drawingMarks forming a picture
- quarteringDivision by four
- tortureDeliberate infliction of suffering
capital punishment · medieval · scaffold · executioner · public execution · Braveheart · gallows · hanging · punishment · condemned
gore
Graphic bloody violence
visceral · graphic · bloody · murder · victim · horror film · brutal · gruesome · macabre · carnage
- punishmentsjail, prison, timeout, grounded, fine
- executionsexecution, execution chamber, hanging, guillotine, executioner
- torturerack, the rack, thumbscrew, thumbscrews, iron maiden
- predationstalking, pursuit, pouncing, attack, killing
- atrocitiesHolocaust, genocide, massacre, massacres, ethnic cleansing
- killingshomicide, murder for hire, manslaughter, killing, assassination
disembowelmentwholeness
Complete, undivided state
intactness · bodily integrity · preservation · healing · restoration
disembowelmentscratch
Superficial wound or mark
flesh wound · abrasion · paper cut · scrape · bruise
disembowelmentwound closure
Sealing an open injury
surgical repair · suturing · healing · restoration · hernia repair