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 Then Morita failed to disembowel himself before he, too, was decapitated. Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 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 You might be left out in the open air to live on in the form of the vultures that disembowel you, or, like the Tollund Man, you could be submitted to a peat bog upon your death so that your bones dissolve in the acidic environment while your skin remains perfectly preserved. Cutter Wood, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 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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  • In North America, the daily task of cleaning oneself is like a form of labor.
    Anna Haines, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Change the dressing once a day, ideally after cleaning the area.
    Alisa Hrustic, SELF, 9 Apr. 2025
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  • Quantum internet removes that risk by ensuring only the sender and receiver can read a message, so not even the hosting platform can access it.
    Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, FOXNews.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The walls were blank; administrators had recently removed art work depicting eight female activists, including Angela Davis, the Marxist prison abolitionist, and Grace Lee Boggs, the Asian American Black Power activist.
    Emma Green, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
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  • Kimmel is one of Hollywood’s most outspoken critics of Trump, often using his late-night monologues to eviscerate the president’s behavior and lawmaking.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Trump has looked to eviscerate for-cause removal protections that Congress has implemented for various federal independent agencies, which prevent the president from removing leaders except for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.
    Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 9 Apr. 2025

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“Disembowel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disembowel. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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