Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb Archaic To disembowel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To inclose in another substance; embed; bury.
- To remove the bowels or internal parts of; eviscerate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To disembowel.
- transitive verb To imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
enclose orbury . - verb To remove the
bowels ;disembowel .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Thanks to the wonders of the English language “embowel” means the same as “disembowel”.
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[Rising up] Embowelled! if thou embowel me to-day,
On the nightstand (under the pillow, in the knapsack, etc.) M-mv 2004
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Embowelled! if thou embowel me to-day, Ill give you leave to powder me and eat me too, to-morrow.
Act V. Scene IV. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914
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“May I live to embowel James Anthony Froude” is the pious aspiration with which he has adorned another page.
The Life of Froude Paul, Herbert 1905
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"May I live to embowel James Anthony Froude" is the pious aspiration with which he has adorned another page.
The Life of Froude 1894
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To such a pitch have people already brought matters, that they can't look at anything as what it is, but search out some great big generality to which they may tie it and slay it and embowel it.
The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck Ludwig Tieck 1813
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(I mean the law Epopoeian), and devolveth upon the poet as his property, who may take him and deal with him as if he had been dead as long as an old Egyptian hero; that is to say, embowel and embalm him for posterity.
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 Alexander Pope 1716
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[Rising up] Embowelled! if thou embowel me to-day,
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He then delivered over the Jews to the earl of Cornwall, that those whom the one brother had flayed, the other might embowel, to make use of the words of the historian. [
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. From Henry III. to Richard III. David Hume 1743
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