disembowel

disembowel

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ embowel

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [dɪsɪmˈbaʊ(ə)ɫ]
• Rhymes: -aʊəl, Rhymes: -aʊl

Verb

disembowel (third-person singular simple present disembowels, present participle disemboweling or disembowelling, simple past and past participle disemboweled or disembowelled)

1. (transitive) To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
2. (transitive) To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider.

Derived terms

• disembowelment

Related terms

• disemvowel

Translations

to take or let out the bowels

Bulgarian: изкормям (bg) (izkormjam) Dutch: ontdarmen (nl), ontweiden (nl) Finnish: suolistaa (fi), poistaa sisälmykset French: éventrer (fr), éviscérer (fr) Galician: destripar, estripar German: (animal) ausweiden (de) Icelandic: aflima

Italian: sviscerare (it), sbudellare, sventrare (it), spanciare Latin: ēviscerō, exenterō Maori: tuaki, hāparangi Portuguese: desentranhar, estripar (pt) Russian: вы́потрошить (ru) (výpotrošitʹ) Spanish: desentrañar (es), destripar (es) Swedish: ta inälvorna ur

to take or draw from the body

Finnish: erittää (fi)

Italian: secernere (it) (fluid, web)

References

• De Mauro - Il dizionario della lingua italiana, Tullio De Mauro. Torino: Paravia, 2000. ISBN 8839550232. Online version here