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unbowel

unbowel verb: to deprive of the entrails; to disembowel.

Verb

unbowel (third-person singular simple present unbowels, present participle (US) unboweling or (UK) unbowelling, simple past and past participle (US) unboweled or (UK) unbowelled)

  1. (transitive) To deprive of the entrails; to disembowel.
    • they ransacke all the corners of the shippe, vnbowel her inmost celles1600, John King, Lectures upon Jonas, delivered at Yorke

Forms of unbowel

third-person singular presentunbowels
present participle USunboweling
present participle UKunbowelling
past participle USunboweled
past USunboweled
past participle UKunbowelled
past UKunbowelled

Origin of unbowel

From un- + bowel.

Questions about unbowel

What does unbowel mean?
Unbowel means to deprive of the entrails; to disembowel.
What part of speech is unbowel?
Unbowel is a verb.
What is the past tense of unbowel?
The past tense of unbowel is unboweled.

Words near unbowel in the dictionary

  1. unbovvered
  2. unbow
  3. unbowable
  4. unbowdlerized
  5. unbowed
  6. unbowel
  7. unboweled
  8. unboweling
  9. unbowelled
  10. unbowelling
  11. unbowels

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