embowel (redirected from embowelling)

em·bow·el  (m-boul)

tr.v. em·bow·eled or em·bow·elled, em·bow·el·ing or em·bow·el·ling, em·bow·els

1. To disembowel.

2. Obsolete To enclose.

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[Obsolete French emboueler, alteration of Old French esbouler : es-, out of (from Latin ex-; see ex-) + Old French boeler (from boel, bouele, entrails; see bowel). Sense 2 : en- + bowel.]

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embowel [ɪmˈbaʊəl]

vb Obsolete

1. to bury or embed deeply

2. another word for disembowel