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UK
/ɪvˈɪsəɹˌeɪt/
]
[ US /əˈvɪsɝˌeɪt/ ]
[ US /əˈvɪsɝˌeɪt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- having been disembowelled
VERB
-
remove the entrails of
draw a chicken -
take away a vital or essential part of
the compromise among the parties eviscerated the bill that had been proposed -
remove the contents of
eviscerate the stomach - surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ
How To Use eviscerate In A Sentence
- I remember during the 8-year Bush Presidency, various friends of mine on the Left eviscerated President Bush on every word stumble, misplaced thought, "unpolitical" correct utterance, and his Texas ways many times. The Moderate Voice
- An all-file-sharing environment would eviscerate the capital resources that make the technological development possible, and probably drive up the average cost to home-recorders considerably.
- Should patents on research tools that have no significant market outside the research community be subject to a research exemption that effectively eviscerates their commercial value?
- It is the destruction of the Al Qaeda network and terrorist organizations with global reach, and, in the case of Afghanistan, the taking asunder -- that, sir, maybe that, asunder, that is not quite as good as eviscerate -- but it has to do with taking down this illegitimate government of the Taliban that provides harbor to Al Qaeda. CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2001
- It was a new thing, that they could eviscerate him when they caught him.
- eviscerate the stomach
- After nine rounds of scrunch-faced spellings and a few gleefully lucky guesses, Michael Whalon terminated his competition with "eviscerate" yesterday in the 35th annual Richmond Times-Dispatch Regional Spelling Bee. News for Richmond Times-Dispatch
- And more than one witness has described to me how he can "eviscerate" opponents who try to take him on in meetings without having their facts straight. The Holy Cow! Candidate
- Too bad there's not a button you can press to eviscerate someone.
- At one point, he kind of eviscerated the idea of the need for a shared critical discourse on books of import, which was awesome. Back from SPX