Synonyms of disembowel

disembowel

verb

ˌdis-əm-ˈbau̇(-ə)l 

as in to clean

to take the internal organs out of

ancient Roman prophets would disembowel animals in order to read the future from their entrails

Synonyms & Similar Words

• clean
• remove
• eviscerate
• draw
• gut
• extract
• cut
• bone
• excise
• withdraw
• dress
• yank
• transplant

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of disembowel

If disembowelling a federal agency does somehow lead to higher reading and math scores, the federal workers who would have tracked this progress won’t be around to tell us about it. —Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025

Analyzing the legendary unicorn tapestries hanging at the Met Cloisters in New York (augmented here by a gory new panel that depicts the suddenly fearsome animals disemboweling and impaling their aggressors), Ridley concludes that unicorns aren’t nearly as benevolent as most people think. —Peter Debruge, Variety, 9 Mar. 2025

You might be left out in the open air to live on in the form of the vultures that disembowel you, or, like the Tollund Man, you could be submitted to a peat bog upon your death so that your bones dissolve in the acidic environment while your skin remains perfectly preserved. —Cutter Wood, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025

The man’s fears are realized when the monkey suddenly begins banging his drum, with a Rube Goldberg-style series of events causing the proprietor to get graphically disemboweled. —Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025