Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of disemboweling; evisceration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
disemboweling
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude
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Examples
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The ceremonial disembowelment, which is usually part of a more elaborate ritual and performed in front of spectators, consists of plunging a short blade, traditionally a tantō, into the abdomen and moving the blade from left to right in a slicing motion.
Arrowhead Pride 2010
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Unusual punishment being outside the norm of accepted society: such as disembowelment, mental abuse, (such as solitary confinement for extended times) mental torment, (being housed where execution is to take place) just to name a few.
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TV stalwart Dennis Cole must fight the mob (headed by Tenebre’s Anthony Franciosa) and an army of the living dead to rescue pretty Tane McClure (Legally Blonde) and a batch of cute tykes from certain disembowelment.
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R. Allen Stanford said Monday knowing the details of how his company handled billions of dollars in investors 'money wasn't part of his job, but making injured clients and employees whole again following the government's "disembowelment" of his businesses has become his top priority.
chron.com Chronicle 2009
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Their history is one long saga of decapitation and disembowelment, usually because of dissatisfaction with the current government.
A Guide to (Aargh! Chop!) Merrie England Joe Queenan 2011
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In entrapment, swimmers can be pinned to the floor of the pool or otherwise trapped until they drown or suffer serious injuries, including disembowelment.
Owning Up to a Boy's Death Ashby Jones 2011
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Scalia, Stevens said, concluded in his opinion that the Eighth Amendment prohibited specific kinds of punishments, including drawing and quartering and disembowelment, "but contained no requirement that the punishment fit the crime."
Justice Alito Will Not Attend Obama's State Of The Union AP 2010
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Governments and churches had long maintained order by punishing nonconformists with mutilation, torture and gruesome forms of execution, such as burning, breaking, disembowelment, impalement and sawing in half.
Violence Vanquished Steven Pinker 2011
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Scalia, Stevens said, concluded in his opinion that the Eighth Amendment prohibited specific kinds of punishments, including drawing and quartering and disembowelment, "but contained no requirement that the punishment fit the crime."
Justice Alito Will Not Attend Obama's State Of The Union AP 2010
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Beheadings, cutting of throats and casual shootings were the more common actions — compared to instances of bayonet stabbing, rape, disembowelment, rifle butt beating and a deliberate refusal to allow the prisoners food or water while keeping them continually marching for nearly a week in tropical heat.
The Greatest Military Defeats In U.S. History | myFiveBest 2010
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