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EVISCERATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Altering something (as a legislative act or a statement) in such a manner as to reduce its value
Example:
the adoption of their amendments would have amounted to an evisceration of the act
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("evisceration" is a kind of...):
devaluation (the reduction of something's value or worth)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude
Synonyms:
disembowelment; evisceration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("evisceration" is a kind of...):
remotion; removal (the act of removing)
Derivation:
eviscerate (remove the entrails of)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("evisceration" is a kind of...):
operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)
