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disbowels

disbowels is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 disbowels

What is disbowels the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Disbowels is the third-person singular simple present indicative of disbowel.

Words near disbowels in the dictionary

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

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