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embowelled

embowelled is the simple past and past participle of embowel.

Meaning of embowel

Verb

embowel (third-person singular simple present embowels, present participle (US) emboweling or (UK) embowelling, simple past and past participle (US) emboweled or (UK) embowelled)

  1. (archaic) To remove the bowels; disembowel.
    • […] So had given no direction about his body. I have cauſed it to be embowelled, and depoſited in a vault, till I have orders from England.1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CXIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume VII, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC, page 415
  2. (obsolete) To enclose or bury.
    • [H]e therefore hastened on, and conducted Carlstadt to the spot he had recently quitted, and discovered to him a rude mishapen entrance to a flight of steps, which appeared as conducting ones to some dwelling emboweled in the earth.1807, [Miss Guion], chapter II, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. […], volume I, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC...
    Synonyms:
    enclose, bury, embed, inclose

Forms of embowelled

alternative USemboweled

Questions about embowelled

What is embowelled the simple past and past participle of?
Embowelled is the simple past and past participle of embowel.

Words near embowelled in the dictionary

  1. embowed
  2. embowel
  3. emboweled
  4. emboweling
  5. embowelings
  6. embowelled
  7. embowelling
  8. embowellings
  9. embowelment
  10. embowelments
  11. embowels

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