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disbowelled

disbowelled 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 disbowelled

What is disbowelled the simple past and past participle of?
Disbowelled is the simple past and past participle of disbowel.

Words near disbowelled in the dictionary

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

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