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disemboweling

disemboweling is the present participle and gerund of disembowel.

Meaning of disembowel

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.

Noun

disemboweling (plural disembowelings)

  1. The act by which somebody is disemboweled.
    • He recalls that experience in a smooth, speedy story, “The Monster Mash,” but these days he’s not sure he liked it too much — the disembowelings, the coolers of brains, the stench of decomposing corpses (“the smell of job security,” as one pathologist puts it) terrify him.2008 June 15, Vanessa Grigoriadis, “Up in Smoke”, in New York Times

Forms of disemboweling

pluraldisembowelings

Questions about disemboweling

What does disemboweling mean?
Disemboweling means the act by which somebody is disemboweled.
What is disemboweling the present participle and gerund of?
Disemboweling is the present participle and gerund of disembowel.
What part of speech is disemboweling?
Disemboweling is a noun.
What is the plural of disemboweling?
The plural of disemboweling is disembowelings.

Words near disemboweling in the dictionary

  1. disembosoms
  2. disembowel
  3. disemboweled
  4. disemboweler
  5. disembowelers
  6. disemboweling
  7. disembowelings
  8. disembowelled
  9. disemboweller
  10. disembowellers
  11. disembowelling

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