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eviscerate

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e·vis·cer·ate  (-vs-rt)
v. e·vis·cer·at·ed, e·vis·cer·at·ing, e·vis·cer·ates
v.tr.
1. To remove the entrails of; disembowel.
2. To take away a vital or essential part of: a compromise that eviscerated the proposed bill.
3. Medicine
a. To remove the contents of (an organ).
b. To remove an organ, such as an eye, from (a patient).
v.intr. Medicine
To protrude through a wound or surgical incision.

[Latin viscerre, viscert- : -, ex-, ex- + viscera, internal organs; see viscera.]

e·viscer·ation n.

eviscerate
Verb
[-ating, -ated] to remove the internal organs of; disembowel [Latin e- out + viscera entrails]
evisceration n
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Verb1.eviscerate - surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ
practice of medicine, medicine - the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; "he studied medicine at Harvard"
remove, take away, withdraw, take - remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"
2.eviscerate - remove the contents of; "eviscerate the stomach"
practice of medicine, medicine - the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; "he studied medicine at Harvard"
empty - make void or empty of contents; "Empty the box"; "The alarm emptied the building"
3.eviscerate - remove the entrails of; "draw a chicken"
remove, take away, withdraw, take - remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"
4.eviscerate - take away a vital or essential part of; "the compromise among the parties eviscerated the bill that had been proposed"
devitalise, devitalize - sap of life or energy; "The recession devitalized the economy"
Adj.1.eviscerate - having been disembowelled
injured - harmed; "injured soldiers"; "injured feelings"


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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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