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Definition of Eviscerate
1. Adjective. Having been disembowelled.
2. Verb. Surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ.
Category relationships: Medicine, Practice Of Medicine
Generic synonyms: Remove, Take, Take Away, Withdraw
Derivative terms: Resection
3. Verb. Remove the contents of. "Eviscerate the stomach"
4. Verb. Remove the entrails of. "Draw a chicken"
Generic synonyms: Remove, Take, Take Away, Withdraw
Derivative terms: Evisceration
5. Verb. Take away a vital or essential part of. "The compromise among the parties eviscerated the bill that had been proposed"
Definition of Eviscerate
1. v. t. To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.
Definition of Eviscerate
1. Verb. (transitive) To disembowel, to remove the viscera. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To elicit the essence of. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive surgery) To remove a bodily organ or its contents. ¹
5. Verb. (intransitive of viscera) To protrude through a surgical incision. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Eviscerate
1. [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eviscerate
Literary usage of Eviscerate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Two Months in the Highlands, Orcadia, and Skye by Charles Richard Weld (1860)
"How to eviscerate a Herring.—Rapidity of the Performance.—Wages of the Gutters.—Number
of Herrings gutted.—Packing the Fish.—The Crown Brand. ..."
2. A French-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1921)
"—-vr be altered by exposure to air, (of wine) become flat; be discovered; fan
oneself. éventrer, vt rip open, eviscerate, gut. éventualité, /. eventuality, ..."
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