Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having entrails.
- Having the entrails removed; disemboweled: as, gutted herring.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective not comparable
eviscerated - adjective With the most important parts
destroyed (often byfire ),removed orrendered useless . - adjective Having a
gut orguts . - adjective slang deeply
disappointed - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
gut . - verb Past participle of
to gut
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Examples
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Fat contracts being gutted is positive, only an idiot worries about “lower standard of living.”
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One bank-owned row house that needs to be gutted is priced at $74,900, Garrison says.
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And the SEC was supposed to be the watchdog over the banking industry but the rules were weakened and the agency again gutted and so we have the mess we are in today.
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Fortunately this matched the design of the lining I had gutted from the other purse.
Purse Diary: Nighttime Sewing Marathon #2 regina doman 2008
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Fortunately this matched the design of the lining I had gutted from the other purse.
Archive 2008-06-01 regina doman 2008
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McCain is no different. our country is screwed because of what the republicans have been doing for the last 8 years. our entire political system needs to be gutted from the ground up and completely rebuilt. too many hands in the cookie jar my grandmother used to say.
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Just days before Jack and Charmian were ready to move into their new home, a fire of unknown origin gutted the house, leaving only the rock walls and chimneys.
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He's probably more likely to produce something that in local parlance would be called gutted, head on, meaning he has cleaned out the stuff you don't want and left the fillets and other useful of information for consumption.
February 2006 Ed Hollett 2006
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He's probably more likely to produce something that in local parlance would be called gutted, head on, meaning he has cleaned out the stuff you don't want and left the fillets and other useful of information for consumption.
Archive 2006-02-01 Ed Hollett 2006
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Now if we were talking about somebody who was brought up in xxx, worked there, represented the area at local government level and then missed out on selection I could understand all this talk of his being "gutted" but really ...
Sorry Iain Norfolk Blogger 2009
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