eviscerate

eviscerate [verb ih-vis-uh-reyt; adjective ih-vis-er-it, -uh-reyt] ExamplesWord Origin verb (used with object), e·vis·cer·at·ed, e·vis·cer·at·ing.

1. to remove the entrails from; disembowel: to eviscerate a chicken.
2. to deprive of vital or essential parts: The censors eviscerated the book to make it inoffensive to the leaders of the party.
3. Surgery. to remove the contents of (a body organ).

Origin of eviscerate 1600–10; Latin ēviscerātus, past participle of ēviscerāre to deprive of entrails, tear to pieces, equivalent to ē- e-1 + viscer(a) viscera + -ātus -ate1 Related formse·vis·cer·a·tion, noune·vis·cer·a·tor, nounun·e·vis·cer·at·ed, adjective Related Words for eviscerates gut, weaken, devitalize Examples from the Web for eviscerates Contemporary Examples of eviscerates

Of course, the fact that Tris faces and eviscerates her own anxiety lends the simulation scene a veneer of victory and autonomy.

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Amy Zimmerman

March 28, 2014

Also, I adore the devastating footnotes, wherein he eviscerates (decorously) his wayward predecessor, Andrew Field.

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March 20, 2013

Ideological polarization, however, eviscerates the center by treating compromise as a sellout.

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March 14, 2013

Michael Moynihan eviscerates the left-wing apologetics that appear in popular travel guides.

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Noah Kristula-Green

August 15, 2012

It cheats and it sweats and it eviscerates and procrastinates and it comes up pathetically short in almost every area.

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Dana Vachon

May 6, 2011

Historical Examples of eviscerates

It falls upon the tiny Crickets, eviscerates them, and devours them with frantic greed.

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J. H. Fabre

British Dictionary definitions for eviscerates eviscerate verb

1. (tr) to remove the internal organs of; disembowel
2. (tr) to deprive of meaning or significance
3. (tr) surgery to remove the contents of (the eyeball or other organ)
4. (intr) surgery (of the viscera) to protrude through a weakened abdominal incision after an operation

adjective

5. having been disembowelled

Derived Formsevisceration, nouneviscerator, nounWord Origin for eviscerate C17: from Latin ēviscerāre to disembowel, from viscera entrails Word Origin and History for eviscerates eviscerate v.

c.1600 (figurative); 1620s (literal), from Latin evisceratus, past participle of eviscerare “to disembowel,” from ex- “out” (see ex-) + viscera “internal organs.” Sometimes used 17c. in figurative sense of “to bring out the deepest secrets of.” Related: Eviscerated; eviscerating.