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disembowel

[dɪsɪmˈbaʊ(ə)ɫ]

disembowel verb: to take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.

Verb

disembowel (third-person singular simple present disembowels, present participle (US) disemboweling or (UK) disembowelling, simple past and past participle (US) disemboweled or (UK) disembowelled)

  1. (transitive) To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
    • `Yea. The people of Kôr ever embalmed their dead, as did the Egyptians, but their art was greater than the art of the Egyptians, for, whereas the Egyptians disembowelled and drew the brain, the people of Kôr injected fluid into the veins, and thus reached every part.'1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
  2. (transitive) To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider.

disembowel meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

disembowel in Urdu

پیٹ چیرنا

disembowel in Malayalam

remove the guts from, gut, draw
അന്തരാവയവങ്ങൾ പുറത്തെടുക്കുക, കുടലും പണ്ടവും മാറ്റുക, കുടലെടുക്കുക, വെട്ടിക്കഴുകുക, വയറു കീറി കുടലെടുക്കുക, ശരീരമാലിന്യം നീക്കുക

Forms of disembowel

third-person singular presentdisembowels
present participle USdisemboweling
present participle UKdisembowelling
past participle USdisemboweled
past USdisemboweled
past participle UKdisembowelled
past UKdisembowelled

Origin of disembowel

From dis- + embowel.

Words formed from disembowel

Words that rhyme with disembowel

Questions about disembowel

What does disembowel mean?
Disembowel means to take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
What is disembowel in Urdu?
Disembowel in Urdu is پیٹ چیرنا. See Disembowel meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is disembowel?
Disembowel is a verb.
How do you pronounce disembowel?
Disembowel is pronounced [dɪsɪmˈbaʊ(ə)ɫ] (UK).
What is the past tense of disembowel?
The past tense of disembowel is disemboweled.

Words near disembowel in the dictionary

  1. disemboguing
  2. disembosom
  3. disembosomed
  4. disembosoming
  5. disembosoms
  6. disembowel
  7. disemboweled
  8. disemboweler
  9. disembowelers
  10. disemboweling
  11. disembowelings

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: disembowel (page history and authors); disembowel (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disembowel (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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