eviscerate

Meaning

  1. (transitive) To disembowel; to remove the viscera.
  2. (transitive) To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless.
  3. (transitive) To elicit the essence of.
  4. (transitive) To remove a bodily organ or its contents.
  5. (intransitive) To protrude through a surgical incision.

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɪˈvɪsəˌɹeɪt/
Etymology

From Latin ēviscerātus, past participle of ēviscerāre (“to disembowel”), from e- (“out”) + viscera (“bowels”).

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