disbowel
English edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
disbowel (third-person singular simple present disbowels, present participle disboweling or disbowelling, simple past and past participle disboweled or disbowelled)
- To disembowel.
- 1591, Edmund Spenser, “Ruines of Rome: by Bellay”, in Complaints, sonnet 28:
- […] a great Oke drie and dead, / […] / Whose foote in ground hath left but feeble holde; / But halfe disbowel'd lies aboue the ground, […]
References edit
- “disbowel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.