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Disembowelment

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dis·em·bow·el  (dsm-boul)
tr.v. dis·em·bow·eled or dis·em·bow·elled, dis·em·bow·el·ing or dis·em·bow·el·ling, dis·em·bow·els
1. To remove the entrails from.
2. To deprive of meaning or substance.
disem·bowel·ment n.
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Noun1.disembowelment - the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude
evisceration
remotion, removal - the act of removing; "he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy"
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I mean, these guys react as if they're in the last stages of disembowelment, but within moments they are running around again, locks flowing and chiseled features intact.
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`Apocalypto' starts with flatulence and ends with a disembowelment, which, in writer-director Mel Gibson's mind, is probably the natural order of things.
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So rather than witness some of my colleagues threaten to commit seppuku (ritual disembowelment in Japanese), I took their advice and toned down the rhetoric.
Introduction by Rutka, John / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
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