disemboweled

Definition of disembowelednext
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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Recent Examples of disemboweled Who knows if, in this upside-down world that currently weighs on her, the june bug can see the nearby corpse of another beetle, accidentally disemboweled by the home’s owner hours before, the white fat peeking out from her rear end like the materialization of her dying breath. María Ospina, The Dial, 31 Mar. 2026 Florida recently disemboweled college-level sociology textbooks. Megan Thiele Strong, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026 The maximum penalty for treason against the king at that time was to be hung by the neck until the edge of death, then disemboweled and torn into four pieces — while still alive. William Doyle, Boston Herald, 3 Dec. 2025 That may sound unfathomable to any non-comic reader who watched Steven Yeun's Mark Grayson get bludgeoned, maimed, and nearly disemboweled (sorry, Atom Eve) in an episode-long, cities-spanning fight with Thragg's berzerker warrior, Conquest (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disemboweled
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  • First, your nail should be cleaned and prepped.
    Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Maintenance Hamster cages should be cleaned often.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
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  • Two of the four lanes would need to be removed to add bus and bike lanes, which could increase vehicle commute times.
    James Taylor, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The team will require a substantial amount of space to removed, repurposed and store roughly 6,500 components.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 15 Apr. 2026

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“Disemboweled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disemboweled. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.

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