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- verb Present participle of
gut . - noun The remains after
gutting a fish. - adjective UK
disheartening ,crushing
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Examples
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Audience claps for his criticism of "Bue Dog" Democrats and their interest in "gutting" the public option.
Cong. Hank Johnson's Health Care Town Hall (Blog for Democracy) 2009
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There has to be a solid, definitive agency vision and a comprehensive strategy that provides productive direction to the creative thought process, and it has to be something that you are going to stick with instead of taking liberties in gutting certain things to make up for the shortcomings in others. common sense
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This will only get worse now that the Supreme Court appointed by Bush have lead a 5-4 in gutting 100 years of campaign finance reform.
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » It Won’t Stop Until Someone (Besides the Taxpayers) Pays a Price 2010
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Obama isn't wasting any time in gutting our national defense.
Potential 2012 candidates knock Obama on missile defense 2009
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They have, however, been extremely aggressive in gutting precedents without explicitly overturning them.
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Four busloads came from Broward, joining angry parents from across the state to confront legislators on classroom cuts they described as gutting elective programs like sports and arts and jeopardizing the job security of teachers.
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What makes it so gutting is that it wasn’t even anything particularly stylish that they did with it.
fraud 2008
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We’d load up David’s van and deliver the fish to his brothers’ shops (they took turns going to the market), stopping finally at his own, where he’d unload and begin gutting and filleting.
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We’d load up David’s van and deliver the fish to his brothers’ shops (they took turns going to the market), stopping finally at his own, where he’d unload and begin gutting and filleting.
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Mr. Tang resisted the idea of gutting the Chinatown restaurant to make it "cool and hip" and instead decided to "preserve a piece of New York history," he said.
The Old and the New 2011
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