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disentrailing

disentrailing is the present participle and gerund of disentrail.

Meaning of disentrail

Verb

disentrail (third-person singular simple present disentrails, present participle disentrailing, simple past and past participle disentrailed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To pull (something) out of the entrails.
    • all his bones as small as sandy grayle / He broke, and did his bowels disentrayle […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about disentrailing

What is disentrailing the present participle and gerund of?
Disentrailing is the present participle and gerund of disentrail.

Words near disentrailing in the dictionary

  1. disentombment
  2. disentombments
  3. disentombs
  4. disentrail
  5. disentrailed
  6. disentrailing
  7. disentrails
  8. disentrain
  9. disentrained
  10. disentraining
  11. disentrainment

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