disemboweled

past tense of disembowel
as in cleaned
to take the internal organs out of ancient Roman prophets would disembowel animals in order to read the future from their entrails

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  • The fish were packaged up in an ice box and sent to a lab where they were cleaned, photographed and identified.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2025
  • My Weekly Routine Cleaning the sink basin each day is definitely important, but there are a few other parts of the sink that need to be cleaned weekly or sometimes a few times a week.
    Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2025
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  • In his letter to the district, Lindstrom said that despite multiple requests to have the carpet removed, the flea infestation became so severe that parents were afraid to send their children to school, and those that did suffered from flea bites.
    JENNAH PENDLETON, Sacbee.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • There is one manuscript, and this has several sections removed, perhaps ones that were extreme in their hostility to Christianity.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
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“Disemboweled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disemboweled. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.

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