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EVISCERATE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having been disembowelled
Classified under:
Similar:
injured (harmed)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they eviscerate ... he / she / it eviscerates
Past simple: eviscerated
Past participle: eviscerated
-ing form: eviscerating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Take away a vital or essential part of
Example:
the compromise among the parties eviscerated the bill that had been proposed
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "eviscerate" is one way to...):
devitalise; devitalize (sap of life or energy)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Remove the entrails of
Example:
draw a chicken
Synonyms:
disembowel; draw; eviscerate
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "eviscerate" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
evisceration (the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Remove the contents of
Example:
eviscerate the stomach
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "eviscerate" is one way to...):
empty (make void or empty of contents)
Domain category:
medicine; practice of 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)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ
Synonyms:
eviscerate; resect
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "eviscerate" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Domain category:
medicine; practice of 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)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
