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disbowel

disbowel verb: to disembowel.

Verb

disbowel (third-person singular simple present disbowels, present participle (US) disboweling or (UK) disbowelling, simple past and past participle (US) disboweled or (UK) disbowelled)

  1. To disembowel.
    • […] a great Oke drie and dead,
      […]
      Whose foote in ground hath left but feeble holde;
      But halfe disbowel'd lies aboue the ground, […]1591, Edmund Spenser, “Ruines of Rome: by Bellay”, in Complaints, sonnet 28

Forms of disbowel

third-person singular presentdisbowels
present participle USdisboweling
present participle UKdisbowelling
past participle USdisboweled
past USdisboweled
past participle UKdisbowelled
past UKdisbowelled

Origin of disbowel

From dis- + bowel.

Questions about disbowel

What does disbowel mean?
Disbowel means to disembowel.
What part of speech is disbowel?
Disbowel is a verb.
What is the past tense of disbowel?
The past tense of disbowel is disboweled.

Words near disbowel in the dictionary

  1. disbosomed
  2. disbosoming
  3. disbosoms
  4. disbound
  5. disbounds
  6. disbowel
  7. disboweled
  8. disboweling
  9. disbowelled
  10. disbowelling
  11. disbowels

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