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unboweling

unboweling is the present participle and gerund of unbowel.

Meaning of unbowel

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

Questions about unboweling

What is unboweling the present participle and gerund of?
Unboweling is the present participle and gerund of unbowel.

Words near unboweling in the dictionary

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

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