eviscerate
English
    
WOTD – 25 July 2012
    Etymology
    
From Latin ēviscerātus, past participle of ēviscerāre (“to disembowel”), from e- (“out”) + viscera (“bowels”).
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ɪˈvɪsəˌɹeɪt/
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Verb
    
eviscerate (third-person singular simple present eviscerates, present participle eviscerating, simple past and past participle eviscerated)
- (transitive) To disembowel, to remove the viscera.
- 2004, Bloodbath, Eaten
- Desecrate me / Tear me limb from limb / Eviscerate me / Chew me to death
 
 
- 2004, Bloodbath, Eaten
- (transitive) To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless.
-  2019 August 15, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian:- Coming on stage at sunrise on the Sunday, Jefferson Airplane greet the new day explaining they’re not a “hippie band” but “manic morning music”, then eviscerate Fred Neil’s Other Side of Life. Somebody to Love is also taken at breakneck speed – this turns out to be an energy tablet before a leaden day.
 
-  2005, Congress, Congressional Record, volume 151, part 16, page 21847:- Earlier the gentleman from California (Mr. Cardoza) got up on the floor, and he was upset that somebody had said that the underlying bill would eviscerate the Endangered Species Act.
 
 
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- (transitive) To elicit the essence of.
- (transitive, surgery) To remove a bodily organ or its contents.
- (intransitive, of viscera) To protrude through a surgical incision.
Synonyms
    
Derived terms
    
Translations
    
to disembowel
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to make ineffectual or meaningless
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Further reading
    
- eviscerate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- “eviscerate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- eviscerate at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
    
Italian
    
    
Verb
    
eviscerate
- inflection of eviscerare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
 
Anagrams
    
Latin
    
    Pronunciation
    
- (Classical) IPA(key): /eː.u̯is.keˈraː.te/, [eːu̯ɪs̠kɛˈräːt̪ɛ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /e.viʃ.ʃeˈra.te/, [eviʃːeˈräːt̪e]
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