as in to clean
to take the internal organs out of ancient Roman prophets would disembowel animals in order to read the future from their entrails

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Recent Examples of disembowel These orcas have been seen disemboweling sharks and extracting their livers, a high-energy organ, with surgical precision. Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025 These orcas have been seen disemboweling sharks and extracting their livers, a high-energy organ, with surgical precision. Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025 If disembowelling a federal agency does somehow lead to higher reading and math scores, the federal workers who would have tracked this progress won’t be around to tell us about it. Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025 Analyzing the legendary unicorn tapestries hanging at the Met Cloisters in New York (augmented here by a gory new panel that depicts the suddenly fearsome animals disemboweling and impaling their aggressors), Ridley concludes that unicorns aren’t nearly as benevolent as most people think. Peter Debruge, Variety, 9 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for disembowel
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  • Instead, cleaning stainless steel requires a little extra TLC and a strategy designed specifically for this material.
    Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 15 July 2025
  • Three varieties rotate in and out, from briny Alaskan Gems to clean and crisp Mer Bleues to the fresh and minerally Malpeque oysters from Prince Edward Island.
    Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 15 July 2025
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  • The handle snaps on and can be removed entirely or replaced with a strap.
    Louryn Strampe, Wired News, 20 July 2025
  • The work includes removing asphalt surface and placing new waterproofing, a new asphalt surface and associated items.
    Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 20 July 2025
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  • President Donald Trump promises clean water for every American, but his latest budget eviscerates federal funding to replace toxic lead pipes, filter out forever chemicals and keep sewage out of lakes and streams.
    Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2025
  • Sitting in a room full of pretentious ex-friends and mentally eviscerating them all is a universal human experience.
    Literary Hub July 1, Literary Hub, 1 July 2025

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“Disembowel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disembowel. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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