- To remove the entrails from.
- To deprive of meaning or substance.
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The verb has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
remove the entrails of
Synonyms: eviscerate, draw
Disembowelment (evisceration) is the removing of some or all of vital organs, usually from the abdomen.
If performed on a living creature, the results are, in virtually all cases, fatal. It has historically been used as a severe form of capital punishment. The last organs to be removed were invariably the heart and lungs so as to keep the condemned alive (and in pain) as long as possible.
Evisceration is often a term used in relation of the slaughter of animals for food. The term actually refers to the removal of the internal organs of a slaughtered animal before it is butchered (separated into different cuts of meat by a butcher) for sale. While in most documented procedures the animal being eviscerated is already dead.[citation needed]
At various points in time and in some cultures, removal of the internal organs was performed as part of the embalming process.
The process of mummification, especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians, entailed the removal of the internal organs prior to the preservation of the remainder of the body. The organs removed were then stored in canopic jars and placed in the tomb with the body.
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Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - tage ud
Nederlands (Dutch)
van ingewanden ontdoen, ingewanden blootleggen
Français (French)
v. tr. - éviscérer, éventrer
Deutsch (German)
v. - Eingeweide herausnehmen, Bauch aufschlitzen
Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - ξεκοιλιάζω, ξαντεριάζω
Português (Portuguese)
v. - desentranhar, eviscerar, destripar
Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - destripar
Svenska (Swedish)
v. - ta ur inälvorna
中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
除去...的内脏
中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 除去...的內臟
日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 腸を除去する, 中のものを取り出す
العربيه (Arabic)
(فعل) ينزع الأحشاء ( من إنسان أو حيوان)
עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - הוציא את המעיים
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