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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Disembowel \Dis`em*bow"el\ (d[i^]s`[e^]m*bou"[e^]l), v. t. [See {Embowel}.] 1. To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of to eviscerate. Soon after their death, they are disemboweled. --Cook. Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep From disemboweled earth the virgin gold. --Thomson. 2. To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider. [R.] ``Her disemboweled web.'' --J. Philips. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: disembowel v : remove the entrails of "draw a chicken" [syn: {eviscerate}, {draw}]
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