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embowel

 
Dictionary: em·bow·el   (ĕm-bou'əl) pronunciation
tr.v., -eled, or -elled, -el·ing, or -el·ling, -els, or -els.
  1. To disembowel.
  2. Obsolete. To enclose.

[Obsolete French emboueler, alteration of Old French esbouler : es-, out of (from Latin ex-; see ex-) + Old French boeler (from boel, bouele, entrails; see bowel). Sense 2 : EN-1 + BOWEL.]


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