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bowelled

bowelled is the simple past and past participle of bowel.

Meaning of bowel

Verb

bowel (third-person singular simple present bowels, present participle (US) boweling or (UK) bowelling, simple past and past participle (US) boweled or (UK) bowelled)

  1. (archaic) To disembowel.
    • Their bodies are first bowelled, then dried upon hurdles till they be very dry [...].1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 149

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Adjective

bowelled (not comparable)

  1. Having bowels; hollow.
    • To the bowelled cavern darting deep.a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC

Questions about bowelled

What does bowelled mean?
Bowelled means having bowels; hollow.
What is bowelled the simple past and past participle of?
Bowelled is the simple past and past participle of bowel.
What part of speech is bowelled?
Bowelled is an adjective.

Words near bowelled in the dictionary

  1. bowel transit time
  2. boweled
  3. boweling
  4. bowelism
  5. Bowell
  6. bowelled
  7. bowelless
  8. bowelling
  9. bowellism
  10. bowels
  11. Bowen

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