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disboweling

disboweling is the present participle and gerund 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 disboweling

What is disboweling the present participle and gerund of?
Disboweling is the present participle and gerund of disbowel.

Words near disboweling in the dictionary

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

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