Definition of Disembowelled

1. Verb. (chiefly British) (past of disembowel) ¹

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Definition of Disembowelled

1. disembowel [v] - See also: disembowel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disembowelled

disembogued
disemboguement
disemboguements
disembogues
disemboguing
disembosom
disembosomed
disembosoming
disembosoms
disembowel
disemboweled
disemboweler
disembowelers
disemboweling
disembowelings
disembowelled (current term)
disemboweller
disembowellers
disembowelling
disembowellings
disembowelment
disembowelments
disembowels
disembowered
disembrangle
disembrangled
disembrangles
disembrangling
disembroil
disembroiled

Literary usage of Disembowelled

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In spite of his sentence, he was neither disembowelled nor quartered, but was buried under the gallows. Cr.MM. ..."

2. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers (1835)
"To increase the horrors of his situation, his son was disembowelled alive before his face. James I. perished in the forty-fourth year of his age, ..."

3. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1854)
"To increase the horrors of his situation, his son was disembowelled alive before his face. James I. perished in the forty-fourth year of hia age, ..."

4. The Journals of Washington Irving (Hitherto Unpublished) by Washington Irving (1919)
"Soon come to the doe lying on hillside disembowelled and leave the footmen to cut it up and carry it to camp. Come upon elk trail — deep prints like a cow ..."

5. The Fortnightly Review (1882)
"It is just two hundred years since a sentence was quashed, because the wretched culprit had not been sentenced to be disembowelled and so forth ..."

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