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eviscerate
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English
WOTD – 25 July 2012, 25 July 2013, 25 July 2014, 25 July 2015
Etymology
From Latin ēviscerātus, past participle of ēviscerāre (“to disembowel”), from e- (“out”) + viscera (“bowels”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪˈvɪsəˌɹeɪt/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Verb
eviscerate (third-person singular simple present eviscerates, present participle eviscerating, simple past and past participle eviscerated)
- (transitive) To disembowel; to remove the viscera.
- 2004, Bloodbath, Eaten:
- Desecrate me / Tear me limb from limb / Eviscerate me / Chew me to death
- (transitive) To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless.
- 2019 August 15, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian:
- Coming on stage at sunrise on the Sunday, Jefferson Airplane greet the new day explaining they’re not a “hippie band” but “manic morning music”, then eviscerate Fred Neil’s Other Side of Life. Somebody to Love is also taken at breakneck speed – this turns out to be an energy tablet before a leaden day.
- 2005, Congress, Congressional Record, volume 151, part 16, page 21847:
- Earlier the gentleman from California (Mr. Cardoza) got up on the floor, and he was upset that somebody had said that the underlying bill would eviscerate the Endangered Species Act.
- (transitive) To elicit the essence of.
- (transitive, surgery) To remove a bodily organ or its contents.
- (intransitive, of viscera) To protrude through a surgical incision.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
disembowel — see disembowel
to make ineffectual or meaningless
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to protrude through surgical incision
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Further reading
- “eviscerate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “eviscerate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “eviscerate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
eviscerate
- inflection of eviscerare:
Etymology 2
Participle
eviscerate f pl
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Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [eː.wɪs.kɛˈraː.tɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [e.viʃ.ʃeˈraː.t̪e]
Participle
ēviscerāte
Spanish
Verb
eviscerate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of eviscerar combined with te
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