as in to clean
to take the internal organs out of the ancient Egyptians would eviscerate the bodies of the dead as part of the process of mummifying them

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Recent Examples of eviscerate Her body was decapitated and eviscerated. Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025 Related Stories Farrelly thinks that kind of oppressive political correctness is fading and that audiences are eager to see movies that eviscerate good taste in order to land a joke again. Brent Lang, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025 Not surprisingly, each went on to have dominant seasons, eviscerating their competition in doing so. Jack Murray, Boston Herald, 5 Sep. 2025 But that cheaper investment has largely been eviscerated, according to a cadre of sports bankers CNBC interviewed. Michael Ozanian, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for eviscerate
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  • Don’t reuse contact lens solution that’s been sitting in your case; clean the case with fresh solution at least once a week and leave it open to air dry; and never use tap water or saliva as a wetting agent.
    Holly Burns, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Staff at the cemetery assigned each student a set of graves to clean in a section of the cemetery that needed grounds maintenance.
    Alyssa N. Salcedo, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
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  • But the lack of transparency and due process are similar, and there are few to no guarantees of the safety of people whom ICE agents remove, often without identifying themselves, and move around without notifying the family or lawyers of the detained.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Slowly but surely, the legal obstacles to taking games overseas have been removed over the past few years.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025

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“Eviscerate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eviscerate. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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