Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To disembowel; eviscerate.
  • transitive verb Medicine To remove the contents of (an organ).

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To disembowel; eviscerate.
  • Disemboweled; eviscerated.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb rare To take out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To disembowel; to eviscerate

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb remove the contents of (an organ)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin exenterāre, exenterāt-, to disembowel : ex-, ex- + Greek enteron, entrails; see en in Indo-European roots.]

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Examples

  • Lycaon-like exenterate, as so many cannibals eat up, or Cadmus 'soldiers consume one another.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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