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The words "wimp" and "eviscerate" don't often go together, but they did in this column by Nicholas D. Kristof of the New York Times:

"...this month the Bush administration joined with those countries [Cuba, Zimbabwe, Iran, Syria and Venezuela] and others to eviscerate a forthright U.N. statement that nations have an obligation to respond to genocide."

Link: A Wimp on Genocide

Posted September 19, 2005.

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IN BRIEF: To take out the internal organs.

The campers had to eviscerate the fish before they could fry them for dinner.

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Extrusion of the viscera, or internal organs; disembowelment.

• ocular e. — removal of the contents of the eyeball, leaving the sclera.
• orbital e. — see enucleation.

For a list of words related to eviscerate, see:

• Cooking Techniques - eviscerate: (vb) remove entrails from
• Violent Actions - eviscerate: remove innards of; disembowel; gut

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See words rhyming with "eviscerate."

  See crossword solutions for the clue Eviscerate.

Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - tage indvoldene ud af, udtømme, fjerne, tage kraften ud af
v. intr. - stikke frem gennem et indsnit

Nederlands (Dutch)
de ingewanden/een orgaan verwijderen, uithollen (figuurlijk), uitpuilen van een orgaan door een snede

Français (French)
v. tr. - éviscérer, éventrer, étriper
v. intr. - éviscérer (sout)

Deutsch (German)
v. - ausnehmen

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - ξαντεριάζω

Italiano (Italian)
sventrare, sviscerare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - eviscerar, enfraquecer

Русский (Russian)
потрошить, выхолащивать, лишать содержания

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - destripar, desentrañar
v. intr. - destripar, desentrañar

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - ta inälvorna ut, rensa, tömma (bildl.)

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
取出内脏, 除去精华, 除去主要部分, 凸出

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 取出內臟, 除去精華, 除去主要部分
v. intr. - 凸出

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 창자를 빼내다
v. intr. - 골자를 빼내다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 内臓を抜く, 骨抜きにする

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يسلبه القوة, ينزع أحشاؤه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮הוציא המעיים, הוציא חלקים פנימיים‬

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