disembowel
pronunciation
How to pronounce disembowel in British English:
UK [ˌdɪsɪmˈbaʊəl]
How to pronounce disembowel in American English:
US [ˌdɪsɪm'baʊəl]
-
- Verb:
- remove the entrails of
Word Origin
- disembowel (v.)
- c. 1600, from dis- + embowel. Earlier form was disbowel (mid-15c.); embowel, with the same meaning, is attested from 1520s. Related: Disemboweled; disembowelment.
Example
- 1. We 're currently in the process of redesigning disembowel .
- 2. Bangert said sometimes they would disembowel corpses , then explode the bodies with c-4 to destroy the evidence of their sadism .
- 3. When she was 13 and her sister was still in diapers , a group of satanists demanded that the sisters disembowel a dog with a knife .
- 4. According to democrats , mitt romney and paul ryan , his running-mate , want to disembowel medicare , the elderly 's sacred public health programme , and slash medicaid , its programme for the poor .