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disembowels

disembowels is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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.

Questions about disembowels

What is disembowels the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Disembowels is the third-person singular simple present indicative of disembowel.

Words near disembowels in the dictionary

  1. disembowellers
  2. disembowelling
  3. disembowellings
  4. disembowelment
  5. disembowelments
  6. disembowels
  7. disembowered
  8. disembrangle
  9. disembrangled
  10. disembrangles
  11. disembrangling

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