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eviscerate [ɪˈvɪsəˌreɪt] vb 1. (tr) to remove the internal organs of; disembowel 2. (tr) to deprive of meaning or significance 3. (Medicine / Surgery) (tr) Surgery to remove the contents of (the eyeball or other organ) 4. (Medicine / Surgery) (intr) Surgery (of the viscera) to protrude through a weakened abdominal incision after an operation adj
having been disembowelled [from Latin ēviscerāre to disembowel, from viscera entrails] evisceration n eviscerator n ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
eviscerate verb gut, draw, paunch, disembowel, remove the internal organs of strangling and eviscerating rabbits for the pot How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Perdue hopes to eviscerate language in the Georgia Constitution that states, "No money shall ever be taken from the public treasury, directly or indirectly, in aid of any church, sect, cult, or religious denomination or of any sectarian institution. We should be taking important steps forward that are sustainable and that do not generate a response that would eviscerate all our advances," he says. Each of the Supreme Court's enemy combatant decisions, he warns, "included enough qualifications and concessions to eviscerate in practice the due process rights that the justices praised in theory. |
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