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disboweled

disboweled is the simple past and past participle of disbowel.

Meaning of disbowel

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

Questions about disboweled

What is disboweled the simple past and past participle of?
Disboweled is the simple past and past participle of disbowel.

Words near disboweled in the dictionary

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

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