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disbowelling

disbowelling 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 disbowelling

What is disbowelling the present participle and gerund of?
Disbowelling is the present participle and gerund of disbowel.

Words near disbowelling in the dictionary

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

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