eviscerating

Verb

eviscerate (third-person singular simple present eviscerates, present participle eviscerating, simple past and past participle eviscerated)

1. (transitive) To disembowel; to remove the viscera.
   • Desecrate me / Tear me limb from limb / Eviscerate me / Chew me to death2004, “Eaten”, in Nightmares Made Flesh (Death Metal), performed by Bloodbath, Sweden
2. (transitive) To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless.
   • Coming on stage at sunrise on the Sunday, Jefferson Airplane greet the new day explaining they’re not a “hippie band” but “manic morning music”, then eviscerate Fred Neil’s Other Side of Life. Somebody to Love is also taken at breakneck speed – this turns out to be an energy tablet before a leaden...2019 August 15, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2021
3. (transitive) To elicit the essence of.
4. (transitive) To remove a bodily organ or its contents.
5. (intransitive) To protrude through a surgical incision.