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 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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  • They should be cleaned and stored in a garage, shed, basement, or even under your deck if they’re protected with a tarp.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Roads are cleaned, including inside suburbs, for weather events like snow, blizzards, freezing rain and ice storms.
    Cheyenne Derksen, Oklahoman, 27 Jan. 2026
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  • That lawsuit ended earlier this month after the immigrant detainee who filed the case agreed to be removed from the United States.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 29 Jan. 2026
  • It was rapidly removed, but an image of the listing was grabbed ahead of that.
    Andrew Williams, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026

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“Disemboweled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disemboweled. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.

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