EVISCERATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eviscerate mean? 

• EVISCERATE (adjective)
  The adjective EVISCERATE has 1 sense:

1. having been disembowelled

  Familiarity information: EVISCERATE used as an adjective is very rare.

• EVISCERATE (verb)
  The verb EVISCERATE has 4 senses:

1. surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ

2. remove the contents of

3. remove the entrails of

4. take away a vital or essential part of

  Familiarity information: EVISCERATE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVISCERATE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having been disembowelled

Similar:

injured (harmed)

• EVISCERATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they eviscerate    ... he / she / it eviscerates   
Past simple: eviscerated   
Past participle: eviscerated   
-ing form: eviscerating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

eviscerate; resect

Hypernyms (to "eviscerate" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Domain category:

medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Remove the contents of

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

eviscerate the stomach

Hypernyms (to "eviscerate" is one way to...):

empty (make void or empty of contents)

Domain category:

medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Remove the entrails of

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

disembowel; draw; eviscerate

Context example:

draw a chicken

Hypernyms (to "eviscerate" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

evisceration (the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Take away a vital or essential part of

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

the compromise among the parties eviscerated the bill that had been proposed

Hypernyms (to "eviscerate" is one way to...):

devitalise; devitalize (sap of life or energy)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something